Graciela Iturbide's 1986 East Los Angeles photographs on view at ROSEGALLERY

ROSEGALLERY will present White Fence, Los Cholos, an exhibition of photographs made by Graciela Iturbide in East Los Angeles in 1986. On May 2, 1986, an assignment for the landmark documentary photographic project A Day in the Life of America brought Iturbide to an apartment in the East L.A. neighborhood of Boyle Heights. There, she was welcomed into a household of young men and women connected to the historic White Fence gang. Named for the white picket fence that surrounded La Purísma Catholic Church (the early gathering place for a youth group and sports team formed by a group of young Mexican American men), following the second World War, the White Fence gang developed into one of the most prominent gangs of the twentieth century. When Iturbide arrived, the community was facing not only intense gang violence, but crises of addiction and police brutality. When deciding on a location to photograph, Iturbide consulted with the Los Angeles Photo Center and Sister Karen Boccalero of Sel