An Interview with Harry Gamboa Jr

Abstract:In this interview, noted photographer Harry Gamboa Jr. discusses his work with Jeremiah Axelrod. Topics include the influence of avant garde cinema, advertising, and mass media on Gamboa’s aesthetic, brutal institutional and cultural prejudice in mid-twentieth century Los Angeles, and his many efforts over the years to counteract those ubiquitous propagandistic negative media images to make visible a much fuller spectrum of Chicano cultural creation and authorship.