The Staging Of A ‘Foto-Novela’ In L.A.’s Rapidly Gentrifying Arts District

As Los Angeles demolishes the 6th Street Bridge, artist Harry Gamboa Jr. saves its memories and relevance through a series of staged photos. His fotonovela practice “has the effect of connecting art world professionals with neophytes, master’s candidates from the graduate fine arts program at CalArts with first-year students from Northridge — most of them Chicano, like Gamboa.”