Reynaldo Rivera: Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City
暫譯: 雷納爾多·里維拉:消失城市的臨時筆記

Rivera, Reynaldo, El Kholti, Hedi, Mackler, Lauren

  • 出版商: Semiotext(e)
  • 出版日期: 2020-12-08
  • 售價: $1,490
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,416
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 200
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 163590112X
  • ISBN-13: 9781635901122
  • 相關分類: 設計攝影 Photograph
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商品描述

Photographs by Reynaldo Rivera that document a vanished LA of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, and underground bands, and long-closed gay and transvestite bars.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Reynaldo Rivera took personal photos of the Los Angeles that he lived in and knew: a world of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, underground bands, and a handful of Latino gay and transvestite bars: Mugi's, The Silverlake Lounge, and La Plaza. Most of these bars are long closed and many of the performers have died. But in Rivera's photographs, these men and women live on in a silvery landscape of makeshift old-style cinematic glamour, a fabulous flight from unacceptable reality.

As a teenager, Rivera took refuge in used bookstores and thrift stores, where he discovered old photo books of Mexican film stars and the work of Lisette Model, Brassai, and Bresson. Inspired, he bought a camera and began photographing people at his hotel. In 1981 he moved to Echo Park and began taking photos for the LA Weekly.

This book is an ensemble of almost 200 images selected by Hedi El Kholti and Lauren Mackler spanning more than two decades in Los Angeles and Mexico. The book also includes Luis Bauz's story, "Tatiana," about one of the subjects of these photographs; a critical essay on Rivera's work by Chris Kraus; and a novella-length conversation between Rivera and his friend and contemporary Vaginal Davis about their lives, work, fantasies, and collective histories.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

雷納爾多·里維拉(Reynaldo Rivera)拍攝的照片,記錄了消逝的洛杉磯,那裡有廉價租金、家庭派對、顛覆性的時尚和地下樂隊,以及早已關閉的同性戀和變裝酒吧。

在1980年代和1990年代,雷納爾多·里維拉拍攝了他所生活和熟悉的洛杉磯的個人照片:一個充滿廉價租金、家庭派對、顛覆性時尚、地下樂隊以及少數拉丁裔同性戀和變裝酒吧的世界:Mugi's、The Silverlake Lounge和La Plaza。這些酒吧大多已經關閉,許多表演者也已去世。但在里維拉的照片中,這些男女依然活在一個銀色的景觀中,展現出舊式電影的魅力,逃避著不可接受的現實。

作為青少年,里維拉在二手書店和古著店中尋找庇護,發現了墨西哥電影明星的舊照片書以及莉塞特·莫德(Lisette Model)、布拉薩伊(Brassai)和布雷松(Bresson)的作品。受到啟發,他購買了一台相機,開始在他的酒店拍攝人們。1981年,他搬到埃可公園(Echo Park),並開始為《LA Weekly》拍攝照片。

這本書是由海迪·艾爾·科爾提(Hedi El Kholti)和勞倫·麥克勒(Lauren Mackler)挑選的近200幅圖片,涵蓋了洛杉磯和墨西哥超過二十年的歷程。書中還包括路易斯·鮑茲(Luis Bauz)的故事《塔蒂亞娜》('Tatiana'),講述了這些照片中的一位主題;克里斯·克勞斯(Chris Kraus)對里維拉作品的批評性文章;以及里維拉與他的朋友和當代人瓦吉納爾·戴維斯(Vaginal Davis)之間關於他們的生活、工作、幻想和共同歷史的長篇對話。

作者簡介

Reynaldo Rivera is an artist from Mexicali, Mexico, who now lives in Los Angeles, where he documents the ongoing relationship between the city and its people.

Born and braised in Los Angeles, California, Vaginal Davis has been based in Berlin, Germany since 2005 where she has been a member of the art collective CHEAP since 2001. She is currently a guest professor teaching a performance seminar called Perverse Assemblages at Work Master HEAD Responsible du Department Arts Visuals, Geneva. She curates the performative film program Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome at Arsenal Institute für film und Video Kunst in Berlin.

Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including I Love Dick and Summer of Hate; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography. She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

雷納多·里維拉(Reynaldo Rivera)是一位來自墨西哥墨西卡利的藝術家,目前居住在洛杉磯,記錄著這座城市與其人民之間持續的關係。

瓦吉納爾·戴維斯(Vaginal Davis)出生並成長於加利福尼亞州洛杉磯,自2005年以來一直居住在德國柏林,自2001年以來是藝術集體CHEAP的成員。她目前擔任客座教授,教授一門名為《扭曲的集合》(Perverse Assemblages)的表演研討會,該課程在日內瓦的HEAD視覺藝術系進行。她策劃了在柏林Arsenal Institute für film und Video Kunst舉行的表演電影計畫《當代醋綜合症》(Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome)。

克里斯·克勞斯(Chris Kraus)是四部小說的作者,包括《我愛迪克》(I Love Dick)和《仇恨之夏》(Summer of Hate);兩本藝術與文化批評的書籍;以及最近出版的《凱西·阿克(Kathy Acker)之後:文學傳記》(After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography)。她於2008年獲得大學藝術協會的法蘭克·朱厄特·馬瑟藝術批評獎(Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism),並於2011年獲得沃霍爾基金會藝術寫作獎助金。她目前居住在洛杉磯。