Chicano Camera Culture
A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026
Elizabeth Ferrer(Editor)
Riverside Art Museum (Publisher)
Published on 31. March 2026
Book
Hardback
200 pages
979-8-218-83309-1 (ISBN)
Description
Examines the depth and evolution of Chicana/o/x lens-based image-makingPublished to accompany a major exhibition of the same title, this volume surveys some 150 works by nearly fifty US Chicana/o/x artists. It moves thematically and intergenerationally, spanning from early activist photographers shooting in the 1960s and '70s to contemporary artists of subsequent generations, whose work builds on this powerful legacy. The exhibition was organized by the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in 2026 and curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, the leading scholar of Latinx photography in the United States.
Spanning the 1960s to the present day, Chicano Camera Culture is the first publication to survey the entire history of photography by Chicano artists based throughout the United States. The generously illustrated book includes original scholarship from such leading scholars as Elizabeth Ferrer, Jennifer A. Gonzalez, Deanna Ledezma, Nicole F. Scalissi, Mary Thomas, and Charlene Villasenor Black. Their essays underscore the significant, historically overlooked role that Chicano photographers have played in advancing aesthetic and technical innovations in the photographic medium. The book also reveals the priority that photographers have placed on portraiture, on the representation of self and others as a means of conveying individual and collective identities.
Spanning the 1960s to the present day, Chicano Camera Culture is the first publication to survey the entire history of photography by Chicano artists based throughout the United States. The generously illustrated book includes original scholarship from such leading scholars as Elizabeth Ferrer, Jennifer A. Gonzalez, Deanna Ledezma, Nicole F. Scalissi, Mary Thomas, and Charlene Villasenor Black. Their essays underscore the significant, historically overlooked role that Chicano photographers have played in advancing aesthetic and technical innovations in the photographic medium. The book also reveals the priority that photographers have placed on portraiture, on the representation of self and others as a means of conveying individual and collective identities.
Reviews / Votes
"Countless images in this catalog are seared into my mind, leaving behind a layered indentation of five decades of Chicano photography in all its complexity. . . . Chicano Camera Culture is a palimpsestic ode to the photographers who documented Mexican-American diasporic identity and political movements, shaping them in turn. The late Rudy Rodriguez's snapshot of Dolores Huerta speaking at a rally in 1974, in particular, stands as a testament to the women who molded Chicano political consciousness and to the artists who expanded its visual language." -- Lakshmi Amin * Hyperallergic *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
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Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 241 mm
Weight
1451 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-218-83309-1 (9798218833091)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Elizabeth Ferrer is author of Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History and Louis Carlos Bernal: Monografia.