Beauty and Struggle Latino Photographers Document Urban America (Online exhibition)

A generation of Latino photographers came of age since the 1950s as American cities underwent massive transformations. Urban neighborhoods on the East and West Coasts already had Latino enclaves, but these regions experienced population booms as immigrants arrived from Latin America and Puerto Ricans moved to the mainland. The photographs gathered in this online exhibition coincide with the decline of urban neighborhoods during the postwar era, when middle class populations moved from the cities to the suburbs and newly built highways cut through thriving communities.  Latino photographers were driven to capture both the experience of urban neglect and the ignored beauty—to use a term coined by photographer and painter John Valadez—of urban residents during periods of social and economic struggle.

https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/beauty-and-struggle/AQLyZqSKuN2RJg