Imperial Courts 1993-2015

Dana Lixenberg
Texts by: Kenneth Cox, Dana Lixenberg, Carla Willems
Design: Roger Willems, 2015
Softcover
Imperial Courts 1993-2015: Dana Lixenberg
Publisher: ROMA Publications, Amsterdam (NL)
Dimensions: 305 x 240 | 12 x 9.5 in
Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789491843426
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In 1992, Dana Lixenberg travelled to South Central Los Angeles for a magazine story on the riots that erupted following the verdict in the Rodney King trial. What she encountered inspired her to revisit the area, and led her to the community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts. Returning countless times over the following twenty-two years, Lixenberg gradually created a collaborative portrait of the changing face of this community.

Over the years, some in the community were killed, while others disappeared or went to jail, and others, once children in early photographs, grew up and had children of their own. In this way, Imperial Courts constitutes a complex and evocative record of the passage of time in an underserved community.

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