Artworks · Antonio Mendoza

Stuart spent two years working every week-end on a 1942 Mercury Woody

1984 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In 1967 I dropped out of graduate school for six months and drove cross-country to San Francisco

1984 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Machete was my best friend when we were thirteen

1984 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The last summer we were in Cuba, there were a lot of weddings

1984 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In 1973 I quit my job as an architect and became an artist

1984 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

When I was one year and three months old, my sister Margarita and I were given with our milk a chocolate called Cal-Ce-Tose, which was "succeeding in making us fatter."

1984 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Margarita's debut party was held in an elegant stage set in the courtyard of the Havana Yacht Club,

1984 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

After two years in Miami (and the Bay of Pigs) my father realized that we would not be returning to Cuba

1984 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

I met Carmen in a party in Boston in 1978

1984 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The longest relationship that I've had with a woman lasted two years, a fact I'm not proud of

1984 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

My father's best friends growing up were his three brothers

1984 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Margarita married Nicolas when she was eighteen and he was twenty-six

1984 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Up to third grade, everything I knew about school I knew from Miss Grey, the English live-in tutor in Cunagua

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

When we were fifteen, Machete and I met two attractive Miami coeds on a week-end trip to Havana

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

I was ten years old spending my first summer away from home at Camp Pasquaney, where every Monday the campers would climb a different mountain

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

My father, a businessman, thoroughly disapproves of my artistic lifestyle my financial irresponsibility, my failure to get married and and raise a family, and he doesn't understand art

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

When i arrived at Tio Luis' farm, i met Helenita, who was visiting my cousin Nina

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Every time I return to my house, I always look forward to playing back the messages in my phone machine: I'm always hopeful that someone interesting is inviting me to dinner

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

My mother's thirteen year old poodle, Woody, was well cared for

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Machete and I left Cuba the summer of 1960

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

My parents came to Boston for my architectural school graduation

1983 · Gelatin silver print

14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

My cousin Sergio won three gold medals swimming for the Havana Yacht Club in 1983

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

I introduced Hervin to his first wife, Cindy, when Hervin and I were roommates in Paris in 1970

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

I met Don in 1969 in an Awareness Workshop and we became close friends

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Alberto was my second during my fraternity initiation

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

My Uncle Victor has ten children

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

My cousin Bernardo was my best friend growing up

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

I have always envied people who can dance

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ana Maria has an intense relationship with her daughter Cristina

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

My father has overeaten, overdrunk, and oversmoked for over fifty-five years

1982 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

"New York"

1982 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

After two years of loft living, I reached the conclusion that I couldn't afford it

1982 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

"Working Mother"

1982 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Concha separated from her husband when Jaime was one

1982 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1980 · Gelatin silver print

12 × 17 7/8" (30.5 × 45.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

I was visiting Stuart when a friend of his came for dinner

1980 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Stuart was my architectural school roommate during the sixties

1980 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1979 · Gelatin silver print

12 1/8 × 17 15/16" (30.7 × 45.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1979 · Gelatin silver print

12 1/16 × 18 " (30.6 × 45.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

After my first date with Judy, early in 1979, I wrote the following in my diary: "take a big chance, be a couple, move in together, get married, have children, grow up, become an adult."

1979 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In 1979 I was awarded a position as an artist in residence in a Boston elementary school

1979 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

When I was seeing judy, I was constantly in awe of her dog, Leela, and I photographed her frequently

1979 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1978 · Gelatin silver print (toned)

12 3/16 × 17 7/8" (31.0 × 45.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

During my second year of architectural school, I designed my parent's house

1978 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Annie and I were a couple in the commune

1977 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Sergio's bulldog, Feo, enjoyed a short but pampered life

1976 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

After graduation Miguel lived half a year with my parents

1976 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Every time I've been in an island in the Tropics I've always been amazed how clean and clear the ocean is there, how much I like the people, how good the breeze from the sea feels

1976 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art