Chicano Protests And Celebrity Portraits: George Rodriguez's Los Angeles
The photographer, now 80 years old, pointed his lens at rock stars and Hollywood icons — when he wasn't documenting social justice movements.
George Rodriguez, now 80, still doesn't go anywhere without taking pictures.
"People don't recognize me without my camera," he says. "I like to document everything that's goin' on."
For nearly six decades, the photographer has chronicled Los Angeles: Hollywood, the Chicano movement, hip-hop pioneers and beyond. His work is now being celebrated with his first retrospective, at the Lodge Gallery in Los Angeles, and a book called Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez.
Cultural historian Josh Kun, who edited the book, says the title refers to Rodriguez's varied
