Artworks · Antonio Mendoza

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

My mother kept a detailed baby book for each of her five children

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

I like to think that i'm an expert in French wines, especially those costing less than three dollars

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

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

I attended five years of private school, four years of college, and three years of graduate school before I became an architect

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

Every summer my body requires that I immerse it into eighty-three degrees tropical ocean for at least one month, if it is to function properly for the rest of the year

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

I'm forty-two years old and I've never been married

1983 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

During the past few years, the only photography jobs I've cheerfully accepted are weddings

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

Yeye's sisters, Magda, Tota, and Manana, used to make me nervous

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

I'm very thankful for being an artist and not having a normal job

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

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

"New York"

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

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

Untitled

1980 · Gelatin silver print

12 × 17 7/8" (30.5 × 45.5 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

Like the cliche, I moved to New York City in search of love, fame, And fortune: I'm still searching, but I did find Ernie

1980 · Gelatin silver print

sheet 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 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

Untitled

1979 · Gelatin silver print

12 1/16 × 18 " (30.6 × 45.6 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