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Author Foster, David William, author.

Title Picturing the barrio : ten Chicano photographers / David William Foster.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Latino and Latin American profiles
Latino and Latin American profiles.
Contents Introduction; Part I. The Barrio: A Chicano Anchor; 1. Barrio Lives: Ricardo Valverde's East Los Angeles Photography; 2. Photography & Nostalgia: The Touched-Up Images of Kathy Vargas; 3. Los Angeles & Other Alien Lands: Harry Gamboa Jr.'s Photography of Urban Exile; 4. Barrios & the Visibility of Enduring Lives: Louis Carlos Bernal; Part II. Individual Subjectivities; 5. Woman's Body & Other Objects of Nature: The Nude Photography of Laura Aguilar; 6. On the Homosociality of Vatos: José Galvez; Part III. Chicano Cultural Perspectives.
7. Mariachi & the Public Display of the Chicano Soul: Miguel A. Gandert8. Lowriders & the Ostentation of Chicano Masculinity: Art Meza; 9. Gendering the Fight: Delilah Montoya's Women Boxers; 10. Strategic Dissemblance in the Photography of Ken Gonzales-Day: Mexican Men and Lynching in California; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
Summary "Mexican-American life, like that of nearly every contemporary community, has been extensively photographed. Yet there is surprisingly little scholarship on Chicano photography. Picturing the Barrio presents the first book-length examination on the topic. David William Foster analyzes the imagery of ten distinctive artists who offer a range of approaches to portraying Chicano life. The production of each artist is examined as an ideological interpretation of how Chicano experience is constructed and interpreted through the medium of photography, in sites ranging from the traditional barrio to large metropolitan societies. These photographers present artistic as well as documentary images of the socially invisible. They and their subjects grapple with definitions of identity, as well as ethnicity and gender. As such, this study deepens our understanding of the many interpretations of the Chicano experience"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Mexican Americans -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.
Mexican Americans -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- Pictorial works.
Mexican Americans -- Social conditions.
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity -- Pictorial works.
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Mexican American neighborhoods -- Pictorial works.
Mexican American neighborhoods.
Community life -- United States -- Pictorial works.
Community life.
United States.
Mexican American photographers -- Biography.
Mexican American photographers.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Documentary photography -- United States.
Documentary photography.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography, Artistic.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Illustrated works.
Illustrated works.
Other Form: Print version: 0822964392 9780822964391 (OCoLC)959276130
ISBN 9780822982388 (electronic book)
0822982382 (electronic book)
0822964392
9780822964391