New Chicano Photo Exhibit Opens In Dallas

The display features silver gelatin prints from Garza’s largely unpublished archive.

A new exhibit at The Pauly Friedman Art Gallery is offering a rare glimpse into the social justice movements of the 1970s through the lens of photographer Luis C. Garza.

Titled The Other Side of Memory: Photographs by Luis C. Garza, the exhibit runs through January 10, 2025.

The display features silver gelatin prints from Garza’s largely unpublished archive, capturing pivotal moments from peace and justice movements in East Los Angeles, the South Bronx, and beyond.

Garza’s evocative images provide an intimate look at the activism and cultural shifts that defined the era.

According to his bio, Garza began his artistic career as a photojournalist recording the tumultuous social events of the 1960s and 1970s for La Raza magazine—the journalistic voice of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles.

The mission of the Pauly Friedman Art Gallery is to engage the Misericordia campus and community in creative experiences through visual art exhibitions and programs that foster critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, and global citizenship.

Gallery programs are supported in part by a 2024 Creative Sector Flex Fund Grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, administered in this region by the state's PPA Partner, Arts in Education NEPA.