Chicanx Photography

"It is the artist's function to act like a camera for society." -- Carlos Almaraz

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Recamara de Mis Padres, Phoenix, Arizona, 1978

Louis Carlos Bernal

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Jose in front of Laundromat, Lynwood, CA., 2017. 

From the series Brown Queer Rancheros.

Fabian Guerrero

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untitled, 1979

Louis Carlos Bernal

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La niña entre señoras, 2018

Arlene Mejorado

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Self-Portrait: Portrait of my Father, Manuel Fernandez, 2006

Carlee Fernandez

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Dream Denied, 2002, Self portrait in wet plate collodion process on tin.

Elizabeth Delgadillo-Merfeld

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El Gato, Canutillo, New Mexico, 1979

Louis Carlos Bernal

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Family and Photography, date unknown

Robert Buitron

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The family backyard, South Los Angeles

Monica Almeida

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Untitled, from the series La Pulga.

Arlene Mejorado

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Man with Shadow on Face, ca. 1978 Neal Slavin

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Martinez Brothers in Candy Store, Douglas, Arizona, 1978 Louis Carlos Bernal

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Melissa Armijo, Eloy Montoya and Richard "El Wino" Madrid, 1983 Miguel A. Gandert

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Nature Self-Portrait #11, 1996

Laura Aguilar

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Laura from “Latina Lesbians” series, 1988

Laura Aguilar

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This Queer Latina Photographer Used Her Own Body As A Powerful Message About Body Positivity

Aguilar's photographs encouraged body positivity long before the term existed.

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At Home with the Nortes, 1990

Laura Aguilar