{"id":3374,"date":"2011-10-23T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2023-01-16T12:21:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T19:21:56","slug":"feliz-dia-de-los-muertos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/feliz-dia-de-los-muertos.html","title":{"rendered":"Feliz Dia de los Muertos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took the following photos at the 12th annual Dia de los Muertos-Day of the Dead festival at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, October 22, 2011. The cemetery, founded in 1889, is the only one in the United States that opens its gates to the public for traditional observances of Dia de los Muertos. Upwards of 10,000 people attended what is probably the largest celebration of its kind in the U.S.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3375\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3375\" title=\"Photo by Mark Vallen\" src=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vallen_day_of_the_dead.jpg\" alt=\"Aparici\u00f3n (Apparition). Photograph and makeup by Mark Vallen 2011 \u00a9. This is a photographic portrait of the editor of this web log, Jeannine Thorpe, which actually tells you a lot about this journalistic undertaking. \" width=\"504\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vallen_day_of_the_dead.jpg 504w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vallen_day_of_the_dead-300x426.jpg 300w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vallen_day_of_the_dead-400x568.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Aparici\u00f3n&#8221; (Apparition). Photograph and makeup by Mark Vallen 2011 \u00a9. This is a photographic portrait of the editor of this web log, Jeannine Thorpe, which actually tells you a lot about this journalistic undertaking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3376\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3376\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3376\" title=\"Photo by Mark Vallen\" src=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vallen_aztec_dancer.jpg\" alt=\"Danzante (Dancer). Photograph - Mark Vallen 2011 \u00a9. One of the dozens of practitioners of traditional Danza Azteca to attend the festival.\" width=\"504\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vallen_aztec_dancer.jpg 504w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vallen_aztec_dancer-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vallen_aztec_dancer-400x342.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Danzante&#8221; (Dancer). Photograph &#8211; Mark Vallen 2011 \u00a9. One of the dozens of practitioners of traditional Danza Azteca to attend the festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3377\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3377\" title=\"Photo by Mark Vallen\" src=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vallen_johanna_aguilar.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of artist Johanna Aguilar. Photograph - Mark Vallen 2011 \u00a9. Aguilar won third prize for her Day of the Dead altar at the 2011 festival. I photographed her as she struck a pose as a living model in her altar's surrealistic tableau.\" width=\"504\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vallen_johanna_aguilar.jpg 504w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vallen_johanna_aguilar-300x377.jpg 300w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vallen_johanna_aguilar-400x503.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Portrait of artist Johanna Aguilar&#8221;. Photograph &#8211; Mark Vallen 2011 \u00a9. Aguilar won third prize for her Day of the Dead altar at the 2011 festival. I photographed her as she struck a pose as a living model in her altar&#8217;s surrealistic tableau.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the following photos at the 12th annual Dia de los Muertos-Day of the Dead festival at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, October 22, 2011. The cemetery, founded in 1889, is the only one in the United States that opens its gates to the public for traditional observances of Dia de los Muertos. Upwards of 10,000 people attended what is probably&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicanarte-chicano-art","category-dia-de-los-muertos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}