Anthony Hernandez

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Anthony Hernandez (born 1947) is an American photographer who divides his time between Los Angeles, his birthplace, and Idaho.

His photography has ranged from street photography to photographs of the built environment and other remains of civilization, particularly images of human presence or elements that act as proof of human presence.

He has spent the bulk of his career photographing in Los Angeles and the immediate regions.

"It's a combination of beauty and brutality that has always intrigued Hernandez." "A common problem has troubled the photographer for the past three decades: how to capture the city's modern architecture and the harsh effects of urban life on its less fortunate residents," La Biennale di Venezia said. Judith Freeman, a novelist, is his wife.

Early street work

His career is characterized by 35 mm black-and-white street photography (mainly portraiture) in Los Angeles and Hollywood, which has developed a distinct style characterized by subjects who look alienated and "overwhelmed by unseen forces." These compositions, according to one commenter, reflect a "peculiar state of stasis." "original photographic approach" that captures an unusual state of animation, as well as "disequilibrium," with his subjects simultaneously "energized and abstracted," a critic wrote about his 1976 photos of Washington, D.C. Garry Winogrand's early work reveals the influence.

Hernandez started to use a Deardorff 5x7 video camera, which changed the look of his work in the late 1970s. He began making photographs of prosaic features of Los Angeles' street life and public spaces between 1978 and 1983, but the wider introduction of the view camera resulted in people taking a less prominent position in his photographs, as well as increasing the presence of the built environment. These photographs depict a fusion of street and landscape photographic traditions as well as modern and animated compositions that are unusual for view camera photography work. Many of the photographs depict shadier social realities. "Public Transit Areas" in this period refers to bus stops, and "Public Use Areas" is a series that follows similar bodies of study, such as "Public Use Areas," "Public Fishing Areas," and "Automotive Landscapes." Some of these images have been likened to the New Topographics' aesthetic. These collections are a few of the few works of art that depict the lives of the poor and working class of Los Angeles's day-to-day lives.

In 1984-1985, responding to a Los Angeles magazine art director's suggestion, he switched to color work with a series of 35 mm close-up street portraits of shoppers taken on Rodeo Drive. He used the same zone focus technique he had used in his early street photography, in which the camera is pre-focused for a set distance, allowing for quick capture. Nevertheless, they have some of the same deliberateness and formality to his view camera work. To emphasize the color, he used transparency film and printed in Cibachrome. Hernandez said that these portraits are more personal than his earlier street portraits. The photographs show a complex mixture of consumerism, class, self-presentation, misogy, sexuality, and photographic representation, with the artist referring to them as his first successful color photographs. Hernandez stopped photographing people after this project, and it was the start of his exclusive use of color photography.

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Early life and career formation

Hernandez was born in Los Angeles to Mexican immigrants, and his family lived near Aliso Village, a housing project in East Los Angeles, before moving to Boyle Heights at about the age of four. He traces his introduction to photography to a textbook a friend gave him when he was a senior at Roosevelt High School. His first camera, a 35mm Nikon, was bought with money he won in a raffle. When attending East Los Angeles College from 1966-1967, he took basic photography classes, but he is mainly self-taught. Hernandez's artistic skills were embraced and nurtured by a close aunt, who introduced him to jazz music and giving him a subscription to Artforum magazine, which the artist describes as an early influence on his artistic growth. Edward Weston also has a great influence, as shown in Hernandez's first formal series: a series of photographs taken on southern California beaches in 1969-1970. Hernandez focuses on Lewis Baltz's work. He has the closest similarity to his own.

His earliest photographs depict part of a defunct vehicle abandoned in an empty lot near his home, foreshadowing the growth of common detritus topics: urban decay and abandoned detritus. Hernandez began photographing after serving in the United States Army from 1967 to 1969 (he served as a medic during the Vietnam War in 1968). He took a workshop with Lee Friedlander in 1969 and constructed his own darkroom in a house he rented in Los Angeles' Westlake neighborhood. Hernandez's work was included in his first museum exhibition and publication, California Photographers, 1970, a survey of new photography from the state. The Crowded Vacancy exhibition and publication in 1971 is considered as seminal in the photographer's career. In 1970 Hernandez, a photographer with a portfolio of images, met with curator of photographs at the Museum of Modern Art who purchased two photographs for the museum and introduced him to photographers Dianne Arbus, Duane Michals, and Garry Winogrand.

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Awards

• 1972: Ferguson Grant, Friends of Photography, Carmel, California
• 1975: Artist-in-Residence, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• 1975: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1978: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1979: Artist-in-Residence, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington
• 1980: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1983: Artist-in-Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, New York
• 1985–1986: Artist-in-residence, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• 1998: Higashikawa Prize, Japan
• 1998–1999: Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
• 2001: Artist-in-residence, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California
• 2016: Lucie Award in Achievement in Fine Arts category