Photographer Louis Carlos Bernal memorialized the barrios at the US-Mexican border
- Written by Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Louis Carlos Bernal, a Chicano photographer born in the Arizona border town of Douglas in 1941, invented a style of art photography that honored his Mexican American culture. In the process, he created an indelible record of life in Southwestern barrios – low-income, primarily Spanish-speaking neighborhoods – in the 1970s and 1980s.
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