Louis Carlos Bernal , "El Gato, Canutillo, New Mexico", 1979, Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona: Louis Carlos Bernal Archive. , © Lisa Bernal Brethour and Katrina Ann Bernal. ,
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Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva
14/09/2024 - 15/03/2025
Center for Creative Photography
1030 N Olive Rd
AZ 85719 Tucson
ccp.arizona.edu/
The Center for Creative Photography presents Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva, a landmark survey of one of the most significant American photographers of the twentieth century.
Born in Douglas, Arizona, and based in Tucson, Louis Carlos Bernal (1941–1993) was a pioneering Chicano photographer, among the very first to envision his work in the medium not as documentation, but as an art form. He began his career in the early 1970s in the wake of the Chicano civil rights movement, articulating a quietly political approach to photography with the aim of heralding the strength, spiritual and cultural values, and profound family ties that marked the lives of Mexican Americans who were marginalized and little seen.
Featuring more than 140 original photographs and archival objects from the Center’s collection, the exhibition also includes examples of Bernal’s early experimental work, photographs from his trips to Mexico, the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and a selection of never-seen images he produced in Cuba.
14/09/2024 - 15/03/2025
Center for Creative Photography
1030 N Olive Rd
AZ 85719 Tucson
ccp.arizona.edu/
The Center for Creative Photography presents Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva, a landmark survey of one of the most significant American photographers of the twentieth century.
Born in Douglas, Arizona, and based in Tucson, Louis Carlos Bernal (1941–1993) was a pioneering Chicano photographer, among the very first to envision his work in the medium not as documentation, but as an art form. He began his career in the early 1970s in the wake of the Chicano civil rights movement, articulating a quietly political approach to photography with the aim of heralding the strength, spiritual and cultural values, and profound family ties that marked the lives of Mexican Americans who were marginalized and little seen.
Featuring more than 140 original photographs and archival objects from the Center’s collection, the exhibition also includes examples of Bernal’s early experimental work, photographs from his trips to Mexico, the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and a selection of never-seen images he produced in Cuba.