NDLI: Photograph by Luis Medina, 1980

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Photograph by Luis Medina, 1980

Content Provider	Art Institute of Chicago
Artist	Luis Medina
Spatial Coverage	United States
Temporal Coverage	1980
Description	Born in Cuba, Luis Medina immigrated to Miami after a multiyear tour of Europe in his teens. He relocated to Chicago in 1967 to study first sculpture, then photography, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a boy in Havana, Medina had, as he put it, “explored the brightest and darkest corners of that city . . . in search of ineffable essences, contradictions, and tragedies contained in anything human.” This interest in his immediate surroundings continued in Chicago, where he turned to the territorial gang graffiti he found in his own neighborhood northwest of Wrigley Field. Medina approached these images as an archivist and as someone familiar with power struggles, photographing several walls after gang members had swung cans of white paint at them to efface a rival gang's graffiti. He eventually gained the trust of members of several Latino gangs, who allowed him to take their portraits in front of their graffiti, in a further gesture of power and defiance. [A work made of silver dye-bleach print.]
File Format	JPG / JPEG
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	© 1980 Luis Medina
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Use Rights URL	https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Subject Keyword	Silver-dye Bleach Print Chicago Photography Photographic Process Latinx Photographic Images Photographic Materials Photographic Print Artworks
Content Type	Image
Resource Type	Photograph
Object Type	Photographs

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