Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Rivera’s monumental portraits of Puerto Ricans in New York (or Nuyoricans) counteract the stereotypes that have circulated in the mass media. The artist found her subjects by asking passersby outside her building if they were Puerto Ricans. If they said yes, she invited them to her studio and photographed them against a dark background. Rivera’s subjects remain anonymous but never powerless. Her direct photographs allow the unassuming individuality of everyday people to speak for itself.
- Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Sophie Rivera, born New York City 1938-died New York City 2021
- Sitter
- unidentified
- Date
- 1978, printed 2006
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Copyright
- © 1978, Sophie Rivera
- Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- sheet and image: 48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
