(Above: “Nedicks Waiter.” Photograph by Sophie Rivera. From Rivera’s obituary in The New York Times’s June 4, 2021, edition by Penelope Green:
“Sophie Rivera, a photographer who won acclaim making luminous portraits of Puerto Rican New Yorkers and other city dwellers before turning the camera on herself, died on May 22 in the Bronx. She was 82.
“Her hu…