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Car Show. (From the SPACES Archives.)

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Seymour's interest in vernacular California, for the 1976 exhibition In Celebration of Ourselves, extended to decorated vehicles, gang graffiti, festivals and pageants. (From the SPACES Archive.)

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Seymour Rosen

Store Front Church. (From the SPACES Archives.)

There Is Something Out There

Seymour Rosen

Rosen’s photos of the storefront churches of South Central L.A. in the 1970s remain amongst his most celebrated as a documentarian. (From the SPACES Archive.)

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Seymour Rosen

“Day of the Dead Event, East L.A.,” 1974. (From the SPACES Archive.)

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Seymour Rosen

Graffiti. (From the SPACES Archives.)

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John Ehn's Old Trapper Lodge, Sun Valley, CA. (From the SPACES Archive.)

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Seymour Rosen

Two worlds collide. The vernacular surrealism of Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village is aesthetically framed by the lens of Seymour Rosen. (From the SPACES Archive.)

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Seymour Rosen

Litto Damonte's Hubcap Ranch, Pope Valley, CA (near Napa), c. 1972.

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Seymour Rosen

Early contact sheet (c. 1953) of Rosen experimenting with angles, shapes, and contrast. It would become a signature later in his many images of the Watts Towers. (From the SPACES Archive.)

There Is Something Out There