Please join us at The Autry Museum for a walkthrough with curator Amy Scott of LA RAZA, the Autry's participating exhibition in Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. We will also view Chicano Male Unbound, a suite of photographs by Harry Gamboa Jr., acquired through a generous grant from PAC/LA.

Published in Los Angeles from 1967 to 1977, the influential bilingual newspaper La Raza engaged photographers as journalists, artists and activists to capture the definitive moments, key players, and signs and symbols of Chicano activism during this pivotal time in the art and history of the United States. LA RAZA is the most sustained examination to date of the alternative press of the Chicano Movement, positioning photography as an artistic medium and a powerful tool of social activism.

In Chicano Male Unbound, photographer, essayist, and performance artist Harry Gamboa Jr. calls into question the relationship between the stereotypes of Mexican American men and the far more diverse community of artists, writers, academics, and creative thinkers who identify as Chicano. Photographed at night and situated within various aspects of Los Angeles’s distinctive urban geography, his subjects together comprise the Chicano avant-garde.