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Joseph Rodriguez

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Location: New York
Nationality: American
Biography: As a documentary photographer for over 25 years, my point of view has been to work slowly when it is possible. The domestic landscape of America has been my interest for the past two decades. Today I continue to work within the social documentary... MORE
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joseph rodriguez
Dec 18, 2017
For Puerto Rican New Yorkers, El Barrio has been both haven and touchstone, a community that has welcomed and inspired generations. No matter where you lived in New York, sooner or later all roads led to 116th Street and Lexington Avenue, the commercial and cultural heart of East Harlem.

Joseph Rodriguez was no exception: Though born and raised in Brooklyn " with detours at Rikers and a life-changing encounter with photography " he, as a teenager, liked to hang out at his uncle's candy store and numbers spot where the streets were abuzz with music and life. Those early encounters led to a May 1990 National Geographic cover story and the most important project of his life after he spent the latter half of the 1980's photographing El Barrio's streets and residents in their homes and on the block.

Now, a revised version of that body of work will be on display at the Bronx Documentary Center, as well as in the new book, "Spanish Harlem: El Barrio in the '80s."

View article written by David González

Joseph Rodriguez's El Barrio in the '80s
A new book revisits Joseph Rodriguez's first project, a yearslong look at El Barrio, which was once the heart of New York's Puerto Rican community.

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