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The Glamorous World of LA's Vanished Queer Underground


The Glamorous World of LA’s Vanished Queer Underground
Reynaldo Rivera’s photographs of trans women, drag artists, and Latinx scenesters are a thrilling account of 1990s-era nightlife.
Reviews - March 16, 2021
If the photographer Reynaldo Rivera didn’t exist, a Hollywood more interested in queer and Latinx people might have invented him. As detailed in
Reynaldo Rivera: Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City(2020), Semiotext(e)’s marvelous new monograph, Rivera sidestepped tragedy through talent and will. He made transformational photographs of subjects transforming themselves, many now dead in places now shuttered or, worse, disappeared. What separates Rivera’s work from that of his peers the loving slums of Nan Goldin, the horny social-butterfly lepidopterarium of Christopher Makos, Alvin Baltrop’s formal observations, the personality crises of Peter Hujar might be a rejection, or perhaps disinterest, in distance. Rivera’s photographs of trans w ....

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