El fotolibro español: The Artists Who Have Shaped Photography in the Americas
From Alejandro Cartagena’s socially incisive images of Mexico to Sophie Rivera’s boldly intimate portraits of everyday Puerto Ricans, these books tell energetic new stories about photography today.
Alejandro Cartagena
Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures
Renowned for her boldly intimate portraits of everyday Puerto Ricans in New York City, Sophie Rivera (1938–2021; born in New York) began her career in the 1970s, becoming part of a coalition of artists who sought to counter negative depictions of the Latine community in US popular culture. Her portraits, street photographs, cityscapes, graffiti-art photographs, and experimental self-portraits bolstered her as a trailblazing artist engaged with feminist and political consciousness.
Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures, published to coincide with a major exhibition at El Museo del Barrio in New York, features photographs, contact sheets, and artist statements alongside vivid new scholarship that places Rivera at the center of Latine and feminist art, as well as within the history of contemporary photography in the United States.
Spotlighted Prints
Alejandro Cartagena
Further Reading
Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules
On the occasion of the first comprehensive, fully bilingual survey charting the career of the prolific photographer Alejandro Cartagena, Sarah Meister is joined by the artist and assistant curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Shana Lopes, and the book’s talented designer, Ricardo Báez, to discuss the artist’s formally engaging and socially incisive images.