Anthony Hernandez - Rodeo Drive 1984 MATISSE journals and photographs

journals and photographs

With October 2022 commemorating the 75th anniversary of Thor Heyerdahl’s extraordinary 1947 voyage upon a balsa-wood raft

Offering readers new and unexamined narratives from an explorer famed for his radical ideas and vehement rejections of abstracted academic theory

who included Lewis Baltz and Terry Wild

their economy of means and exploitation of decorative strategies

Anthony Hernandez - Rodeo Drive 1984 MATISSE journals and photographsRodeo Drive, 1984 is a series of 41 images of shoppers on Beverly Hills infamous shopping highway. The subjects appear caught unaware, glancing up as they walk, or daydreaming as they wait to be served in its commercial landscape of shops and restaurants. Anthony Hernandez poses as a dispassionate observer, recording the big hair, wide shoulders and cinched waists of the 1980s in sunlit photographs. Hernandez does not simply document the urban