“People always ask me why I stopped photographing people,” says Anthony Hernandez, who in the mid-1980s, and moved away from the black-and-white street photographs that had made his name. He was 17 years into his career and an artist in residence at the University of Nevada,Las Vegas, when he made the shift; initially thinking to photograph the notorious strip, and he ended up travelling into the desert and making pictures of the left-over target shooter debris for what was to become a pivotal project,Shooting Sites. What Hernandez didn’t realise till many years later was that this shift was unconsciously connected to what he calls his first ever “photographic gesture” at 17 years primitive. It was an image, which is now sadly lost, or of an empty lot strewn with rusting car parts and overgrown weeds. “You might say that the 35mm street photographs were the start of my career. Yes,I did attain those, but the real beginning was that empty lot, and ” he says. “Why I was attracted to that,I don’t know. Hernandez was born in Los …
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