LABC Presents: Cruise Night: An Intimate Look at the Mexican American Lowrider Tradition in LA
Wed, Jun 12
|The Los Angeles Breakfast Club
Enjoy a catered breakfast, silly songs, club traditions, and special presentation each week at the historic Los Angeles Breakfast Club.
Time & Location
Jun 12, 2024, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
The Los Angeles Breakfast Club, 3201 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Guests
About the event
ABOUT THE BOOK: Known for her quiet portraits of American cultural movements, Kristin Bedford’s book, Cruise Night, is an intimate and unstaged exploration of Mexican American lowrider car culture in Los Angeles. From 2014 to 2019 she attended hundreds of lowrider cruise nights, car shows, quinceañeras, weddings, and funerals. Bedford’s images offer a new visual narrative around the lowrider tradition and invite us to question prevalent societal stereotypes. Located at the intersection of aesthetics and social realism, her photographs explore the nuance of cars as mobile canvases and the legendary community that creates them. With the bold language of color photography and the female vantage point, Cruise Night is an original look at a prolific American movement set against the Los Angeles cityscape.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Kristin Bedford’s photography explores race, visual stereotypes, and communal self-expression.
Her monograph Cruise Night was a best-selling photography book in the USA in 2021 and has been reprinted with a 2024 release. Her work…