Luis Garza shot for La Raza in East L.A. during the heyday of the Chicano Movement. Now 80, he chats with columnist David Allen about his Riverside Art Museum retrospective.
got his start as a street photographer as Chicanos themselves were taking to the streets. He’d just arrived in Los Angeles from New York City unsure of what he wanted to do. But a contact told him about a protest and said “bring your camera.”, a bilingual tabloid in East L.A., taking thousands of images from 1968 to 1972.
“La Raza became my training ground. I didn’t get a degree — USC, UCLA,” Garza said. “My training was OTJ: on the job. I went into the streets. I photographed.” As Fernandez mused during their joint talk: “Black and white photography lends a sort of legitimacy to the observation. It feels more real and profound.”
“I’m proud to say I got drunk with Siqueiros,” Garza recalled. And he shot two now-iconic portraits of the artist.
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