Geraldo Cadava writes about the early photos taken by Ricky Flores which are collected in a new book, “The South Bronx Family Album.”
“The bastards,” Flores said, when I spoke with him recently. “They used my shit as source material, and all they gave me was a free subscription to The New Republic.” They gave him no credit, and little compensation. But Flores kept capturing images of his neighborhood, and beyond.
Flores didn’t know how to print photographs, but he learned through trial and error. One night, Flores got locked inside the building. He stayed overnight, because he worried that, if he broke out and the door remained unlocked, someone might take the equipment. Many of the photos he took during those early years appear in “The South Bronx Family Album.
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