IMPERIAL COURTS 1993-2015

With text by Kenneth Cox, Lixenberg, and Carla Williams. Second edition. Softback. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Without inscriptions or other markings. A Fine copy. In 1992, Dutch photographer 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 and led her to the community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts. Over the following 22 years, Lixenberg created a collaborative portrait of the changing face of this community; some in the community were killed, 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 an evocative record of the passage of time in a deprived community. Lixenberg (b. 1964) studied photography at the London College of Printing (1984–1986) and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (1987–1989). She has had work published in Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone.