Chillin' with Mom
Celebrate Mother's Day the old fashioned way—with quality time!
Joseph Rodríguez believes that taking pictures allows him to meet people, get to know them, and learn how to listen. Mothers on the Stoop, from a series documenting life in Spanish Harlem, captures the easy camaraderie of four Puerto Rican women seated on the steps of their brownstone tenement enjoying their children. The series, which is empathetic, sensitive, and at times brutally honest, addresses issues of identity and the persistence of values within the community.
Source: Virginia Mecklenburg. Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999).
Pictured: Joseph Rodríguez, born 1951, Mothers on the Stoop, 1988, chromogenic photograph, 20 x 16 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist.
Celebrate Mother's Day the old fashioned way—with quality time!
Joseph Rodríguez believes that taking pictures allows him to meet people, get to know them, and learn how to listen. Mothers on the Stoop, from a series documenting life in Spanish Harlem, captures the easy camaraderie of four Puerto Rican women seated on the steps of their brownstone tenement enjoying their children. The series, which is empathetic, sensitive, and at times brutally honest, addresses issues of identity and the persistence of values within the community.