Our Lady of the Angels: The Virgin of Guadalupe on the Walls of Los Angeles - Hardcover

by Sam Quinones (Author)

Thirty years of photographs of murals of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the walls of Los Angeles, a potent symbol of the city's unique cultural heritage.

On storefronts, alleyways, and street corners across the city, murals of the Virgin of Guadalupe grace the walls of Los Angeles in a tapestry of faith, identity, and culture. Our Lady of the Angels: The Virgin of Guadalupe on the Walls of Los Angeles captures the sacred and everyday presence of Guadalupe murals across the city, offering a poignant lens into the cultural heartbeat of LA neighborhoods. Each image is a testament to community, artistry, and devotion--a visual pilgrimage through urban altars where spirituality meets street art. Whether you're drawn to religious iconography, Latino culture, or the layered stories of LA itself, this collection invites you to see the city anew--through the lens of its most beloved saint.

En escaparates, callejones y esquinas de toda la ciudad, murales de la Virgen de Guadalupe adornan los muros de Los Ángeles como un tapiz de fe, identidad y cultura. Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles: La Virgen de Guadalupe en los muros de Los Ángeles captura la presencia sagrada y cotidiana de los murales guadalupanos en la ciudad, ofreciendo una mirada conmovedora al pulso cultural de los vecindarios angelinos. Cada imagen es un testimonio de comunidad, arte y devoción: una peregrinación visual a través de altares urbanos donde la espiritualidad se encuentra con el arte callejero. Ya sea que te atraiga la iconografía religiosa, la cultura latina o las historias entrelazadas de Los Ángeles, esta colección te invita a ver la ciudad de una nueva manera: a través del lente de su santa más querida.

Author Biography

Sam Quinones is a journalist, former LA Times reporter, author and storyteller. A reporter for almost 30 years, Quinones lived and worked as a freelance writer in Mexico from 1994 to 2004. He spent time with gang members and governors, taco vendors and Los Tigres del Norte. He wrote about soap operas, and he lived briefly in a drug-rehabilitation clinic in Zamora, while hanging out with a street gang. His previous two acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction about Mexico and Mexican immigration made him, according to the SF Chronicle Book Review, "the most original writer on Mexico and the border." His first book, True Tales From Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2001) is a collection of nonfiction stories about contemporary Mexico. His second, Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration (UNM Press, 2007) was called "genuinely original work, what great fiction and nonfiction aspire to be, these are the stories that stop time and remind us how great reading is." (S.F. Chronicle). In 1998, he received an Alicia Patterson Fellowship, and Columbia University's Maria Moors Cabot Prize in 2008, for a career of excellence in reporting about Latin America.