MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum is hosting the first retrospective of American photographer Anthony Hernandez, featuring over 150 photographs—many never shown before—from the artist’s more than 45-year career.

Hernandez’s most recent series, Against LA, is debuting at the Milwaukee Art Museum presentation of the exhibition. These photographs synthesize many of the themes present throughout Hernandez’s body of work, including the ways in which humans use the built environment, as well as demonstrate the artist’s longstanding interest in color, form and texture.

Over the course of his career, the Los Angeles native has deftly moved from black-and-white to color photography, from 35 mm to large-format cameras, and from the human figure to the landscape to abstracted detail. Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Anthony Hernandez is on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum from September 15, 2017, to January 1, 2018, in the Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts, a 10,000-square-foot exhibition space in the Museum’s renovated and expanded Collection Galleries.

As a largely self-taught photographer, Anthony Hernandez has brought a new perspective to the genre of American street photography. His individual style springs from and is attuned to the particular aesthetic of his hometown, Los Angeles, a city famous for its desolate beauty as well as it miles of urban sprawl. For Hernandez, the city’s architecture and public spaces are subjects as well as the setting for his pictures.

“Anthony Hernandez offers the opportunity for Museum visitors to discover how this artist’s distinctive street photography evolved over time,” said Lisa Sutcliffe, curator of photography and media arts. “His photography captures unvarnished everyday life—in both beautiful and personal moments, in the ways people interact with the city, and in the tiny landscapes they leave behind. We hope his body of work will spur conversations on homelessness, those who are marginalized, and how the life and design of a city includes or excludes the people who live there.”

Anthony Hernandez is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.