Avo Tavitian’s Tires of Los Angeles gathers twenty-four black-and-white photographs into a thirty-two-page hardcover sequence published by Nazraeli Press. Drawn from his wider study of Los Angeles, the selection concentrates on secondhand tire businesses and improvised pavement displays. These everyday places connect the city’s dependence on cars with the practical economy of repair and reuse. The tire becomes both a useful object and a recurring visual form.

Tavitian was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1954 and moved with his family to the eastern United States in the late 1960s following the 1967 Middle East war. His formative years in New Jersey and New York City preceded his move to Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. That changing relationship to place provides a biographical context for photographs concerned with the city as it is encountered in daily life.

The book is published on the occasion of Tavitian’s Spring 2026 exhibition of photographs and photographic objects at POST in Tokyo. It presents twenty-four photographs printed in duotone on matte art paper and bound in silkscreen-printed boards, with a trim size of approximately 6.75 by 11.5 inches (17 by 29 cm). The first edition is limited to 500 copies. It is the publisher’s second monograph on the artist’s work.

For readers interested in contemporary documentary work from Southern California, the book’s subject is the trade in used tires, treated here as an ordinary and persistent feature of the urban landscape. Nazraeli Press has issued the volume in a limited first edition, and the Tokyo exhibition places the photographs in a wider public context. Stacks, circles, painted signs and fences offer different ways of organizing the same familiar object within a photograph.