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Imperial Courts (signed)

by Dana Lixenberg

Photographs: Dana Lixenberg

Publisher: Roma Publications

269 pages

Year: 2015

ISBN: 978-94-91843-42-6

Price: 70 €

Comments: Paperback, English, 24 x 31 cm, second edition.

In 1992, Dana Lixenberg travelled to South Central Los Angeles for a magazine story on the riots that erupted following the verdict in the Rodney King trial. What she encountered inspired her to revisit the area, and led her to the community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts. Returning countless times over the following twenty-two years, Lixenberg gradually created a collaborative portrait of the changing face of this community. Over the years, some in the community were killed, while others disappeared or went to jail, and others, once children in early photographs, grew up and had children of their own. In this way, Imperial Courts constitutes a complex and evocative record of the passage of time in an underserved community.

She is the winner of the Deutsche Boerse Photography Prize 2017.

This title was selected for the Shortlist for the 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.

> selected among the Best Photobooks 2015 by David Campany and Jeffrey Ladd

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