Life Along an L.A. Avenue
Times photo editor Aurelio Jose Barrera started documenting life on Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in 2003. The seven-mile street named for the storied Mexican American labor leader begins where Sunset Boulevard ends, near Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles.
From there it heads east, over rail yards and beneath freeways, past White Memorial Medical Center and Belvedere Park, finally ending at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park.
Through these portraits of a street musician, a tattoo parlor, nightclub dancers and a mother with child in arms, Barrera attempts to capture the complexity and beauty of the street and the Latino community of Los Angeles.
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