If you’ve kicked yourself for having missed the exhibition Guadalupe Rosales: Legends Never Die, A Collective Memory, which recently closed at Aperture, the magazine’s online archive might be your next move. The exhibition expanded on a recent article about Rosales’ archive of Chicano life in Los Angeles, which began when she moved from LA to New York City in 2000.

For Rosales, “these photographs were placeholders for a history that.had yet to be told. Their pull eventually compelled her to come back home to LA. ‘I was thinking a lot about my crew days…and I was always attracted to photographs not just for their images, but for the notes written on the back. They were like relics; they reconnected me.’”

The article describes the dangers faced by fun-loving teens of color who were forced underground in order to live like other American teens while avoiding the conflicts they would have faced had they not. The LA rave scene of the 1990s depicted in Rosales’ archive reflects the “archive of the ephemeral” posed by the radical historian Jose Esteban Munoz.

In his groundbreaking 1996 text he stated that “contrary to traditional archives that exclude marginal communities—the poor, queer, and colored—an ephemeral archive allows us entry into transient spaces, such as dance floors and cruise spots, where we can begin to find their stories.”

In the article Rosales presented her personal archive through two Instagram accounts, Veterans y Rucas and Map Pointz, on which she collects and shares additional materials. Inspired by the work of Eddie Ruvalcaba, a photographer she met on Instagram, she has engaged in the growing movement of nontraditional, DIY archive projects dedicated to recovering lost histories. Photos left and above are screen grabs from the online Aperture archive, courtesy Aperture magazine.

The online archive of every issue of Aperture can be accessed through a digital-only subscription or through a print and digital subscription, which also includes the semi-annual Photobook Review. Info

Tonight, Aperture opens the 4-day only installation of How We See Photobooks by Women at the New York Public Library with a panel that includes Lesley A. Martin, Daria Tuminas, Olga Yatskevich, 6:30 pm. NYPL, Celeste Auditorium, Stephen A. Schwarzian Building, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, NY, NY Info

Tomorrow night Aperture opens its winter exhibition, Chloe Dewe Mathews | Caspian: The Elements, with a reception from 6:30 to 8 pm. Info Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY.

The following photo of the 1992 LA riots, DMV Destruction—L.A.Riots, Long Beach California, 1992, © Christina Salvador, appears in Dark Days: Mystery, Murder, Mayhem, Issue 147, which I edited in 1997, and is included in the archive.