Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures

The first bilingual monograph dedicated to Sophie Rivera, a trailblazing artist at the center of feminist engagement, Latine art, and contemporary US photography.   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 Latinos 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.  

Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 272
Number of images: 125
Publication date: 2026-06-16
Measurements: 8 x 10.25 x 1 inches
ISBN: 9781597115971

Sophie Rivera (1938–2021; born in New York) was an artist and photographer of Puerto Rican descent. A participant in various feminist and women’s artist groups, she was also a member and instructor at En Foco, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to US-based photographers of diverse cultures. Rivera is best known for her Latino Portrait series, which helped redefine Puerto Rican identity in the United States.

Susanna V. Temkin is interim chief curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. 
Deanna Ledezma is a Tejanx scholar, writer, and educator specializing in the history and theory of photography and Latine contemporary art and visual culture. She is the postdoctoral research associate for the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative at the University of Illinois Chicago.  
Elisabeth Sherman is the Robert A. and Elizabeth Rohn Jeffe Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Museum of the City of New York.
Serda Yalkin is a scholar and PhD candidate in art history at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.