John M. Valadez: A Two Second Gaze—Photography from the 1970s and 80s presents a selection of rarely and never exhibited photographs from his seminal body of work, The East Los Angeles Urban Portrait Portfolio. The series is a visual archive of portraits of neighbors, friends, and everyday people he encountered on walks through his neighborhood in East Los Angeles to and from his studio in Downtown L.A.'s theater district. By situating this work in Asian, Black, Brown, and immigrant communities, Valadez activated the Chicano movement’s concerns: visibility, space, and pride. The photographs become documents of a moment, capturing culture, street fashion, public spaces, but also a lived Chicano reality in L.A.