Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez Hat & Beard Press, 2018.

by Josh Kun

$250 · Offered by eBay

First edition

The first ever career retrospective of Los Angeles photographer George Rodriguez. Published by Hat & Beard Press in 2018. Long sold out and hard to find. In great condition -- a few slight marks on the corners of the outside cover as pictured. Hardcover, 192 pages 9.5 × 11.75 in. 24.13 × 29.845 cm. Since the 1950s, Rodriguez has quietly documented multiple social worlds—in California and beyond—that have never before been displayed together, a rare mix of Hollywood and Chicano L.A., film premieres and farmworker strikes, album covers and street scenes, celebrity portraits and civil rights marches. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Rodriguez, raised in South Los Angeles, led something of a double life as a photographer. He worked for film studios, record labels, and magazines like Tiger Beat, processing film for Hollywood photographers and shooting countless photographs of the era’s biggest music and film stars, while also photographing the social movements and protests that were exploding on the streets of Los Angeles and throughout the country: the East Los Angeles Walkouts, the Chicano Moratorium, the United Farm Workers movement, the Sunset Strip riots, among others. Double Vision explores both of these worlds alongside the many other urban scenes Rodriguez has shot over the years, from L.A. gang graffiti and boxing to early hip-hop. A student of Sid Avery and a contemporary of Dennis Hopper, Rodriguez is one of the great visual documentarians of Los Angeles and of the cultura

• Publisher: HaT & Beard, LLC
• Year: 2018
• ISBN: 9780998723969
• Condition: Very Good

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