Aurelio Jose Barrera, a longtime Los Angeles Times photographer who helped the paper win a Pulitzer Prize with a groundbreaking series on L.A.’s overlooked Latino communities, has died. In retirement, he launched a one-man crusade to deliver food to the homeless in those communities.
Antonio Hernandez plays his accordion early on a Sunday morning on the steps of Vallarta Tires and Auto Service.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
Religious symbols hang on an automobile dashboard in Los Angeles.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
An 18th Street gang member photographed in South Los Angeles.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
An 18th Street gang member, 14, gets a “1” and an “8” tattooed on his forearm by a roving tattooist.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
18th Street gang members climb a fence at Morningside High in Inglewood.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
At work with Norma Galindo at Norma’s Beauty Salon on Cesar E. Chavez Avenue.
(Aurelio José Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
An initiation into the 18th Street gang by four 18th Streeters in an alley in Santa Ana.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
Tattoo artist Jesus “Chuy” Rangel painstakingly creates a design at the City of Angels Tattoo Shop.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
An argument between police and civilians erupts before a rock- and brick-throwing incident at the corner of Vermont Avenue and 1st Street in Los Angeles during the L.A. riots in April 1992.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
Irv Karan at his dried fruit and nuts stand at Grand Central Market in August 1985.
(Auerlio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
A woman carries a child into a fundraiser at the Self Help Graphics & Art gallery in Los Angeles.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
Guitarist Eddie Van Halen goes airborne during a Los Angeles performance in 1984.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
At Children’s Hospital of Orange County, John Mash of Corona watches his son’s procedure through a plastic curtain.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
Tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy, who curated the 1995 “Eye Tattooed America” exhibition at Laguna Art Museum.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
An 18th Street gang member sits in his graffiti-covered bedroom in his family’s Inglewood apartment.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
An 18th Street gang member hangs out at an Inglewood market.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)
An 18th Street gang member displays a .22-caliber handgun in Southeast Los Angeles.
(Aurelio Jose Barrera / Los Angeles Times)