Imperial Courts 1993-2015 (SIGNED)

Dana Lixenberg
Imperial Courts 1993-2015 (SIGNED)

Photographs: Dana Lixenberg

Text: Kenneth Cox, Dana Lixenberg, Carla Williams

Publisher: Roma Publications

294 pages

Year: 2015

Price: 420 €

Comments: Illustrated softcover, 31 x 24cm, First edition, text in English, design by Roger Willems, in very good condition. Signed by Dana Lixenberg.

"In 1993, 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 there 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 with her 4x5 field camera.

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."