“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 8/ /14:
From a recent Whittier Daily News article about photographer George Rodriguez:
His career has spanned the Hollywood era of Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood, and the late careers of Lucille Ball and Judy Garland, the beginnings of the Sunset Strip-Whisky a Go Go scene, the seminal days of rock ’n’ roll in Los Angeles, the Michael Jackson phenomenon, and the rap artists just out of Compton.
But his lens also has turned away from the bright lights to record the social upheaval of the times, the Latino farmworkers movement, Cesar Chavez, street scenes, and a Latino perspective of America. . . .
A biography and a television documentary about Rodriguez are in the works. The book, “With a Camera in His Hand: the Double Vision of George Rodriguez,” is being assembled by Rodriguez in conjunction Josh Kun, associate professor at USC.
Read more about this much honored, important artist in the Whittier Daily News and at the Whittier Artists website, which also features a collection of his work.
