Tag: Perla de León

Close-Ups of Puerto Rican New York

Close-Ups of Puerto Rican New York

Eight photographers captured what it meant to live in New York and call oneself Puerto Rican.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/close-ups-of-puerto-rican-new-york/

“Dia” embraces the period from the 1960s to the 1980s — when Puerto Rican New York was very much on the rise — with the work of eight photographers: Máximo Colón, Joe Conzo, Perla de León, Pablo Delano, Frank Espada, Ricky Flores, David Gonzalez (a Times colleague and frequent contributor to Lens) and Francisco Reyes II.

May 12, 2011