Photographer Barbara Mensch's rediscovered photo archives and interview tapes capture symbolic transformations of Lower Manhattan. Many of these images are published here for the first time. The photographs evoke the passage of time by dividing the images into three parts: the 1980s, the 1990s,...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Mensch, Barbara 1950- (FotografIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Empire State Editions 2023
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schlagworte:	Mensch, Barbara > 1950- Geschichte 1980-2022 Schwarzweißfotografie New York > NY, Motiv History / (OCoLC)fst01411628 Pictorial works / (OCoLC)fst01423874 Illustrated works Lower Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) / Pictorial works Lower Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) / History / Pictorial works Bildband
Zusammenfassung:	Photographer Barbara Mensch's rediscovered photo archives and interview tapes capture symbolic transformations of Lower Manhattan. Many of these images are published here for the first time. The photographs evoke the passage of time by dividing the images into three parts: the 1980s, the 1990s, and the new millennium (2000 and beyond). Photos from the 1990s present images of floods and fires that paralyzed the area, juxtaposed with continued bulldozing to clear the way for luxury housing. Politics reshaped Manhattan's skyline by encouraging new commercial shopping, food, and restaurant destinations. This restructuring marked the beginning of the end of downtown's blue-collar origins and white-collar replacements, challenging us to ask, "What was lost?" The seminal event of the 2000s, September 11, 2001, reinforced downtown's rebirth as the global economic engine with no room for the past. Also included in this section is an interview with an insider privy to the Mafia leadership of the Fulton Fish Market during Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's opportunistic crusade against them in the 1980s
Beschreibung:	x, 115 Seiten Karte 30 cm
ISBN:	9781531504397 1531504396