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Bring your lunch and join us as Bonnie Barrett presents the life and work of Inna Ray, whose images are now part of the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection.

Inna Ray (1949-2020) began photographing Los Angeles while still a student at Immaculate Heart College. Between the years of 1972 and 1988, when woman street photographers were rare, Inna Ray devoted herself to shooting black and white film on the streets of Los Angeles. With the eye of a painter and the spirit of a poet, Ray documented a now-lost Los Angeles. Traveling on foot and by public bus, she shot at Venice Beach, in the Arroyo Seco, in Alta Loma, and throughout Southern California. Ray documented the disco-era heyday of Venice Beach, Art Deco architecture, parades and festivals, cemeteries, abandoned stone buildings, pilings from lost coastal piers, and the lazy days of summer with friends. It is an extraordinary record of the visual landscape of Los Angeles in those years.

Bonnie Barrett is retired from teaching graphic design and computer graphics at Cerritos College. Her graphic design work is focused primarily on icon design, typography, books, and packaging design. She met Inna Ray in 1970 when they were both Art students at Immaculate Heart College in Hollywood. As Artistic Executor, she has placed Inna Ray's poetry, painting, and photography in the collections of the Huntington Library, Chapman University, The Hilbert Museum of California Art, the UC Irvine Langston Museum, the Los Angeles Public Library, and several other public collections.

For ADA accommodations, call (213) 228-7430 at least 72 hours prior to the event.

Para ajustes razonables según la ley de ADA, llama al (213) 228-7430 al menos 72 horas antes del evento.