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Article: En Foco: 30 Years of Latino Life through the Camera's Eye
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- The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
- Article date:
- August 9, 2004
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We've all done it hundreds of times. We don't even realize we're doing it, and in an instant, a culture, an era, a style, and, some believe, a soul is captured. Just by taking a picture.
Charles Biasiny-Rivera returned to his native Bronx, N.Y., from Puerto Rico in 1978 to finish what he had started four years earlier. The young Nuyorican and his two friends, Roger Caban and Phil Dante, decided to create a photographers group to examine and chronicle their New York barrio experiences.
"It was a time when our communities were called `inner city' and our artists were served by `Ghetto Arts' programs of a prominent funder," Biasiny-Rivera wrote in 2001. They didn't think of themselves quite ...