{"title":"Reynaldo Rivera","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"reynaldo-rivera-book-reynaldo-rivera-9781635901122","title":"Reynaldo Rivera","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhotographs 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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 \u003ci\u003eLA Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49737566159121,"sku":"NGR9781635901122","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50951304806673,"sku":"CIN163590112XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52634368508177,"sku":"NIN9781635901122","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/163590112X.jpg?v=1751182651"},{"product_id":"propiedad-privada-book-reynaldo-rivera-9781635902426","title":"Propiedad Privada","description":"\u003cb\u003eArtist Reynaldo Rivera's second monograph, collecting almost four decades of his intimate and illicit blue works.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFistful of Love\u003c\/i\u003e showcases over one hundred photographs from Reynaldo Rivera's personal archive, introducing never-before-seen images alongside some of the artist's most iconic works. Shot from the 1980s to the present, the candid photographs in this raw, erotic series capture moments of privacy and pleasure. The series features the recurring figures of the artist's lovers, friends, and sisters, pictured in their most undressed states, and movingly portrays relationships that have since ended--loves later lost, glimpsed before their undoing. Closer to the present, the series also includes writers and artists who have more recently entered Rivera's life and agreed to pose seductively, performatively for his camera. \u003ci\u003eFistful of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is the artist's second monograph, following the widely praised \u003ci\u003eReynaldo Rivera: Notes for a Disappeared Cit\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). Whereas \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e was an ode to Los Angeles, documenting a furtive subculture of house parties and gay clubs, \u003ci\u003eFistful\u003c\/i\u003e is far more interior, capturing performances made for an audience of one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRivera calls these photographs his blue works. There is a sultry moodiness to the series, as well as a fondness for the indecent and illicit, for moments that were not staged and not meant to be seen. In an era when self-documenting has become commonplace and candid photography is unhesitatingly shared with strangers, this body of work reaches for intimacy, privacy, self-use. It also upends the predominant representation of gay Latino male sexuality as macho and hardcore. Rivera's subjects, many of them photographed at the height of the AIDS epidemic, are presented neither as predator nor prey, but in more human terms of love, lust, longing, and self-fulfillment. A tender portrait of the artist and his community, \u003ci\u003eFistful of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is both elegiac and documentary. Some of Rivera's subjects have since died, yet are preserved here in peak vitality, fixed in moments of pleasure. Others have become lifelong muses, letting Rivera's lens be witness to their bodies' aging over the years. Many of the photographs depict Rivera himself, his image reappearing throughout the series in mirrors and self-portraits, another body subject to the transformations of time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmerging from Rivera's desire to defy taboos surrounding nudity and queer sexuality, \u003ci\u003eFistful of Love\u003c\/i\u003e encapsulates almost four decades of work. Complementing this quietly monumental archive is a curated assortment of texts: a catalog essay by Lauren Mackler; a set of specially commissioned blue writings by authors such as Constance Debr , Abdellah Ta a, and Colm T ib n; and a selection from poet Gil Cuadros's canonical collection \u003ci\u003eCity of God\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51628657541393,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51628657770769,"sku":"NGR9781635902426","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53103498166545,"sku":"NIN9781635902426","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1635902428.jpg?v=1769683971"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/fr-fr\/collections\/auteur-livres-de-reynaldo-rivera.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}