Chavez
¿Chicano y que?
September 12, 2009
Chicano Photographer Jesús Manuel Mena Garza is offering a free 2010 calendar with a photo of Cesar Chavez. Check out his blog ¿Chicano y que? for the calendar and other Chicano images that he has shot.
Gil Ortiz
July 24, 2009
In either 1975 or 1976 photographer Gil Ortiz shot Cesar Chavez on a march through Malibu, CA.
Born in Los Angeles Gil grew up in the downtown LA area. At an early age he landed a job in a photo lab and soon began to document life around him. For years he was a shooter in New York. He is currently back to shooting in Los Angeles.
East Los Angeles Library Mosaic Mural
July 03, 2009
This photo of artist Jose Antonio's monumental mosaic mural "OUR LEGACY: Forever Presente..." is one of my favorita photos taken by former Los Angeles Times photographer Carlos Chavez. The mural is inside the foyer of the East Los Angeles Library.
Los Angeles Times Street Scenes
May 04, 2009
At 4:30 am the bakers at El Gallo Bakery in East Los Angeles start baking fresh bread. It has been nearly a year since the Los Angeles Times Street Scenes were shot. Five Latino shooters, 4 photographers and one editor, shot 5 of the 14 neighborhoods.
I shot Avenida Cesar Chavez in East Los Angeles
Carlos Chavez shot Lankershim Blvd in North Hollywood
Genaro Molina shot the Boardwalk in Venice
Michael Robinson-Chavez shot Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles
Karen Tapia shot the Orange Plaza in Orange
Cesar Chavez Day - March 31st
March 26, 2009
The Los Angeles Unified School District finally declared Cesar Chavez Day a school holiday.
This photo is from the UCLA Digital Archives - Changing Times: Los Angeles In Photographs 1920 - 1990. Most of the photos carry a Creative Commons designation.