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Taro Hirano "Los Angeles Car Club" in Financial Times
Taroo Hirano has an eye for the quirks of the US west coast culture... by Chris Allnutt
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Jason Polan "Every Person in New York vol 2" in The New York Times
Despite the quixotic scale of his work, Mr. Polan’s vision of New York wasn’t grandiose or especially nostalgic. He drew whoever caught his eye, and that didn’t depend on whether his subjects said in or on line, or if they ate their pizza with a fork. They were just people who happened to be in this particular place. (Crucially, he didn’t insist that people be “New Yorkers.” He allowed each person to be of this city, at least for a moment.) Most of his subjects were anonymous, but their anonymity wasn’t some step on the way to being discovered or transformed by attention. When...
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Janette Beckman "El Hoyo Maravilla" in The Guardian
I was staying with a friend in Los Angeles in 1983, documenting the punk scene when I saw a story in LA Weekly about this Mexican American gang the Hoyo Maravilla. Nobody much thought about East LA and the different communities there. I was fascinated by this culture that I, especially being British, wasn’t aware of... by Amy Fleming
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Jason Polan "Every Person in New York: Vol 2" in Vanity Fair
Polan witnessed a moment, knew it was special, and put it someplace where we could find it nearly six years later, in the newly published Every Person in New York Volume 2. (The first landed in 2015, a few months after that pickle.) The book is joyous in every way but the obvious fact...by Laura Regensdorf
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Jason Polan "Every Person in New York: Vol 2" in THE CUT
Jason Polan was the city’s resident illustrator. “He was always on a street somewhere in New York, notebook in hand, following people, sitting off to the side, watching, a slight smile on his lips, this human seeing-machine saw and drew it all,” wrote Jerry Saltz last January, when Polan died of cancer at the age of 37. One of his final projects was to draw “every person in New York,” and he made it past 30,000 squiggly ink drawings....by Emilia Petrarca
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Janette Beckman "El Hoyo Maravilla" in DAZED
One of the most striking aspects of this series of images is the gang’s aesthetic. Despite being taken in the early 80s, the pictures have a look of another era. Like most subcultures, HM’s unity, cohesiveness, and identity is expressed through the way they dress. “I think the Hoyo Maravilla style may reference the time of the zoot suit wars in 1943,” Beckman suggests. These infamous riots erupted in Southern California when this oversized style of tailoring became unjustly and irrationally associated with grandiosity and unpatriotism, due to the fact it required what was deemed an excessive amount of fabric...
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