The Flâneur

Baubles collected by a digital magpie. Brooklyn.

[einflaneur]

Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot) in her performance installation POLICE STATE - June 5 — June 21 2025, MOCA

[artphotocollector]

"To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am." --Cheech Marin

The new--and first of its kind--publication on Chicano Photography, Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966-2026 is a welcomed contribution to our shared visual history. As a self proclaimed Chicano myself, who has spent a lifetime exploring photography, this publication marks a new milestone. This is my first experience engaging with a monograph that specifically celebrates sixty years and over 45 artists--who have expressed, documented, probed, and wondered what it means to be a Chicano, and an American, in these United States. There is much to discover.

Edited by the formidable curator/writer Elizabeth Ferrer, whose introductory essay "Bringing Forth a History" builds the context and creates the space for the ensuing essays from noted Latinx art scholars and historians, Chicano Camera Culture lays a foundation for future research and study of Chicano Photography. Finally, a bold history, too often marginalized and ignored, is reclaimed.

For those in the Los Angeles area, the exhibition is currently at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture (a/k/a "The Cheech") until September 6th. For those in other parts, I recommend seeking out this publication. For my fellow Chicanos, I say ¡Órale!—Lane Nevares

credits left to right: ©Thalia Gochez, ©Yolanda Vasquez Petrocelli, ©Arlene Mejorado, ©Ada Trillo, ©William Camargo

[fanfanlemoko]

Les gamins du Canal Saint-Martin, Paris, 1952.

[last-picture-show]

Meadows, Untitled, 2007

[henk-heijmans]

Levitation, 2026 - by Yulia Boldinova, Russian

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Bernard Chevalier

[questcequecestqueca]

Helena Giorgiou

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Chris Steele-Perkins (British, 1947 – 2025)

Glasgow, 1975

[henk-heijmans]

Barcelona, ca. 1956 - by Ramón Masats (1931 - 2024), Spanish

[batteredshoes]

Leonard Cohen | Nashville, TN | 1968

Photo: Tony Vaccaro

[irenelichtensteinblog]

Lee Friedlander, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1961

[henk-heijmans]

Abandoned cottage in the military range on the drive down to Stack Rocks in Pembrokeshire, Castlemartin, Wales , 2017 - by Lee Acaster, English

[randomphotojournal]

[cesontlesfemmes]

Gong Li par Marc Riboud, Chine, 1983

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STIG EKLUND - 2023

[irenelichtensteinblog]

Irving Penn, Street in Rabat, Morocco, 1951 via Marie Franck

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Mississippi Highway patrolmen arresting Anthony Quin, 5, son of Mrs. Aylene Quin, during a voting rights protest in Jackson, Miss.; when Quinn refused to give up his small American flag, patrolman went berserk and wrenched it out of his hands, June 17, 1965, Jackson, Miss., Photo by Matt Herron, 1965