Everything

Hernandez, Anthony

Code: 2641

ISBN: 9781590051092

Publisher: 0

New Hardcover First Edition, Signed by the photographer

Price: £40

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Signed by the Photographer The Los Angeles River is shaped by Southern California?s arid climate. During the dry months, from June to October, it is little more than a rivulet, meandering torpidly through miles of concrete flood-control. But between November and May, when fierce rains strike, it rises up, swelling against its man-made boundaries, fed by storm drains that conduct waste water to the sea. From January 2003 to May 2004, photographer Anthony Hernandez walked the basin of the Los Angeles River, recording what he saw ? which, as the book?s title implies, was more or less Everything. For Hernandez, to explore the river was to explore his own past. As a boy growing up in Boyle Heights, a largely Latino neighborhood in East Los Angeles, he played in the concrete basin, or as he puts it, made ?mischief,? exploding railroad flares in its tunnel-like storm drains, and smashing bottles against its walls. Significantly, Hernandez does not stage his photographs; he records what he finds. In the river, this mostly means items left by homeless people (who camp there in the warmer weather) or objects lost down far-away storm drains. Everything is printed in a First edition of 1,000 copies. Introduction by M. G. Lord. Hardcover, 12 x 13, 80 pages, 45 four-color plates.