Mothers+on+the+Stoop

1988
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1996/1996.81.1_1a.jpg?itok=p_9z8VJu width="240" height="366" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/mothers-on-the-stoop-from-the-series-spanish-harlem-35369"]] || Title: **Mothers on the Stoop**

Artist: **Joseph Rodríguez** Born: New York, New York 1951

Medium: chromogenic photograph on paper Dimensions: image: 18 x 12 in. (45.7 x 30.5 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the artist

Accession: 1996.81.1 || 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.
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