CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/27/2016

Anthony Hernandez

"Los Angeles #2" (1970) is reproduced from Anthony Hernandez, the first major monograph on this quietly influential American photographer whose career survey is on view at SFMOMA through January 1. Robert Adams writes, "Alfred Stieglitz said that 'all true things are equal to one another,' and in that he spoke for most artists. They are convinced, despite having to sort through daily practicalities by triage, that everything is of immeasurable consequence. For Anthony Hernandez, everything really means everything—a chair made of broken drywall, a fishing place where one might not want to eat the catch, a platinum-colored wig... And everything means everyone—a woman with flowers in her hair, a man with a boxer’s broken face, an office worker alone at noon with a book... Why, on the evidence of the pictures, is everything important?"