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Book Lower East and Upper West

Download or read book Lower East and Upper West written by Jonathan Brand and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant street life and people of New York City's Lower East Side and Upper West Side in the 1950s and 1960s are presented in this book of black-and-white photographs by Jonathan Brand. A census taker and later an advertising copywriter, Brand chronicled life as he encountered it on his walks through the city.The book offers 104 striking images of New Yorkers engaged in everyday pursuits, from the Bowery to Riverside Park, juice stands and barbershops to Theatre in the Streets.With an introduction by Julia Dolan, The Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, this is the first book from a photographer who developed his art alongside many of the best-known in his discipline. Brand's photographs capture the energy, odd juxtapositions and intimate moments of life in mid-century New York City.

Book Life on the Lower East Side

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca Lepkoff
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 2006-09-28
  • ISBN : 9781568986067
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Life on the Lower East Side written by Rebecca Lepkoff and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life on the Lower East Side, the first monograph of Lepkoff's work, highlights the area between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges from the Bowery to the East River. Over 170 beautifully reproduced duotone photographs and essays by Peter E. Dans and Suzanne Wasserman uncover a forgotten time and place and reveal how the Lower East Side remains both unaltered and forever changed."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Somewhere Below 14th and East

Download or read book Somewhere Below 14th and East written by Ray Parada and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Remnants

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sean Corcoran
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781942185307
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Remnants written by Sean Corcoran and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheinbaum and Russek started photographing the Lower East Side in 1999, and have chronicled its transformation. As it undergoes rapid gentrification, the Lower East Side's future is unclear. In 2008, the National Trust for Historic Preservation added the neighborhood to its list of America's Most Endangered Places. Many believe the cultural institutions and ideologies that established the Lower East Side are disappearing. With this book, Scheinbaum and Russek capture remnants of history through their portraits of traditional businesses, places of worship, people, and the old world architecture that have defined the Lower East Side for generations.

Book Remembering the Lower East Side

Download or read book Remembering the Lower East Side written by Hasia R. Diner and published by Indiana University Press (Ips). This book was released on 2000-12-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the Lower East Side of New York City has been recognized and scrutinized as the largest and most vibrant immigrant Jewish neighborhood in America. In recent years a spate of art works, performances, and tourist productions have fostered increased interest in the neighborhood. This lively book explores the dynamics of Lower East Side memory and considers the changing ways that this unique neighborhood has been embraced by American Jews over the course of a century. Part 1, "The Dynamics of Remembrance," investigates multiple facets of life on the Lower East Side and considers the emerging repertoire of memory that took shape around the neighborhood. Themes include the naming of the Lower East Side, a century of photography of the neighborhood, and the colorful histories of synagogues and schools, restaurants and cabarets. Part 2, "Contemporary Recollections," examines the recent upsurge of interest in the Lower East Side as a site of Jewish heritage and cultural innovation. Topics include the creation of the Tenement Museum, walking tours of the neighborhood and visits to popular "period" restaurants, the experience of a documentary filmmaker, and the performance of memory in a refurbished synagogue. A generous selection of photographs enhances the book's wide-ranging insights into how the Lower East Side became a touchstone of Jewish identity and history. Contributors include Stephan Brumberg, Hasia R. Diner, Joseph Dorman, Paula Hyman, Eve Jochnowitz, Seth Kamil, David Kaufman, Jack Kugelmass, David Lobenstine, Mario Maffi, Deborah Dash Moore, Riv-Ellen Prell, Moses Rischin, Jeffrey Shandler, Suzanne Wasserman, Aviva Weintraub, and Beth S. Wenger.

Book Alphabet City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoffrey Biddle
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-03-29
  • ISBN : 0520320050
  • Pages : 175 pages

Download or read book Alphabet City written by Geoffrey Biddle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Book Photographing the Lower East Side

Download or read book Photographing the Lower East Side written by Brian Rose and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book made by students at the International Center of Photography.Photographing New York: The Lower East SideInstructor: Brian Rose

Book Lower East Side

    Book Details:
  • Author : onno de jong
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-12-20
  • ISBN : 9780996329620
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Lower East Side written by onno de jong and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lower East Side: Lens on the Lower East Side is a photographic essay that explores through text a brief history of Manhattan's vibrant Lower East Side neighborhood, and through contemporary photographs the modern vitality of this historic community. The book highlights the area's energetic, often rowdy history that includes being a national center for immigration into our country, and a longtime magnet for innovative artists, musicians, writers and political activists. The book's sponsor, Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the East Village / Lower East Side's historic streetscapes, and was instrumental in the 2012 landmarking of two East Village New York City Historic Districts.

Book Kill City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ash Thayer
  • Publisher : powerHouse Books
  • Release : 2015-03-31
  • ISBN : 9781576877340
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Kill City written by Ash Thayer and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being kicked out of her apartment in Brooklyn in 1992, and unable to afford rent anywhere near her school, young art student Ash Thayer found herself with few options. Luckily she was welcomed as a guest into See Skwat. New York City in the '90s saw the streets of the Lower East Side overun with derelict buildings, junkies huddled in dark corners, and dealers packing guns. People in desperate need of housing, worn down from waiting for years in line on the low-income housing lists, had been moving in and fixing up city-abandoned buildings since the mid-80s in the LES. Squatters took over entire buildings, but these structures were barely habitable. They were overrun with vermin, lacking plumbing, electricity, and even walls, floors, and a roof. Punks and outcasts joined the squatter movement and tackled an epic rebuilding project to create homes for themselves. The squatters were forced to be secretive and exclusive as a result of their poor legal standing in the buildings. Few outsiders were welcome and fewer photographers or journalists. Thayer's camera accompanied her everywhere as she lived at the squats and worked alongside other residents. Ash observed them training each other in these necessary crafts and finding much of their materials in the overflowing bounty that is New York City's refuse and trash. The trust earned from her subjects was unique and her access intimate. Kill City is a true untold story of New York's legendary LES squatters.

Book Street Play

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha Cooper
  • Publisher : From here to Fame publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Street Play written by Martha Cooper and published by From here to Fame publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Cooper's photos take us through the Alphabet City of the late 70s as the area was about to undergo extensive urban renewal -- a process that is still continuing today. At the time, the neighborhood had more than its share of drug dealers and petty criminals, and the landscape seemed ugly and forbidding. But to the children who grew up there, the abandoned buildings and rubble-strewn lots made perfect playgrounds, providing raw materials and open space for unsupervised play. A crumbling tenement housed a secret clubhouse, rooftops became private aviaries, and a pile of trash might be a source for treasure.

Book Photographing New York

Download or read book Photographing New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lo Down

Download or read book The Lo Down written by Lo Bosworth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality TV personality Lauren "Lo" Bosworth has witnessed her fair share of bad dating and has experienced some herself. As a star on two reality shows, she is no stranger to drama and what comes along with it. Now she is offering her advice gleaned from her and her famous friends' relationship experiences on dating and love. Featuring personal photos and anecdotes about her experiences on "Laguna Beach" and "The Hills", The Lo-Down is a further glimpse into the lives of the people that have enthralled so many.

Book East Village

    Book Details:
  • Author : onno de jong
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-05-11
  • ISBN : 9780996329606
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book East Village written by onno de jong and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Village: Lens on the Lower East Side is a photographic essay that explores through text a brief history of Manhattan's vibrant East Village neighborhood, and through contemporary photographs the modern vitality of this historic community. The book highlights the area's energetic, often rowdy history that includes being a national center for immigration into our country, and a longtime magnet for innovative artists, musicians, writers and political activists. The book's sponsor, Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the East Village / Lower East Side's historic streetscapes, and was instrumental in the 2012 landmarking of two East Village New York City Historic Districts.

Book The Lower East Side

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald Sanders
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2013-02-19
  • ISBN : 0486137791
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book The Lower East Side written by Ronald Sanders and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of evocative photographs chronicles evolution of immigrant neighborhood from 1870s to 1920 as waves of Jewish immigrants arrived from Eastern Europe. 99 black-and-white photographs. Introduction. Bibliography.

Book How the Other Half Lives

Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How the Other Half Looks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sara Blair
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-07-14
  • ISBN : 0691202877
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book How the Other Half Looks written by Sara Blair and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies. This book takes an unprecedented look at the practices of observation that emerged from this critical site of encounter, showing how they have informed literary and everyday narratives of America, its citizens, and its possible futures. Taking readers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Sara Blair traces the career of the Lower East Side as a place where image-makers, writers, and social reformers tested new techniques for apprehending America--and their subjects looked back, confronting the means used to represent them. This dynamic shaped the birth of American photojournalism, the writings of Stephen Crane and Abraham Cahan, and the forms of early cinema. During the 1930s, the emptying ghetto opened contested views of the modern city, animating the work of such writers and photographers as Henry Roth, Walker Evans, and Ben Shahn. After World War II, the Lower East Side became a key resource for imagining poetic revolution, as in the work of Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones, and exploring dystopian futures, from Cold War atomic strikes to the death of print culture and the threat of climate change. How the Other Half Looks reveals how the Lower East Side has inspired new ways of looking-and looking back-that have shaped literary and popular expression as well as American modernity.

Book The Synagogues of New York s Lower East Side

Download or read book The Synagogues of New York s Lower East Side written by Gerard R. Wolfe and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic book on the Lower East Side's synagogues and their congregations, past and present-now back in print in a completely revised and expanded edition