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Rare Books
Everything and anything
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
"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, got into 'mischief,' exploring railroad flares in its tunnel-like storm drains ... By definition, photographs freeze time. But when they are collected and linked, as these are, they move through time--which since the dawn of figurative language has been symbolized as a river. A river is also an icon of renewal. Water fills it, evaporates, and descends again as rain. There is, however, a warning quality to the vignettes Hernandez captured in this river. Non-biodegradable dolls, the undead, gird for attack; pollutants glisten and, in the case of the bird on the cover, kill. Many images are, to be sure, breathtakingly beautiful, both in color and composition. But they suggest that we as a culture may have through negligence blown our chance at regeneration"--From essay.
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