A Falling-Off Place

preview-18
  • A Falling-Off Place Book Detail

  • Author : Barbara G. Mensch
  • Release Date : 2023-09-05
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Genre : Photography
  • Pages : 131
  • ISBN 13 : 153150440X
  • File Size : 17,17 MB

A Falling-Off Place by Barbara G. Mensch PDF Summary

Book Description: Photographer Barbara Mensch's rediscovered photo archives and interview tapes capture symbolic transformations of Lower Manhattan. Many of the images are published here for the first time. The photographs evoke the passage of time by dividing the images into three parts: the 1980s, 1990s, and the new millennium (2000 and beyond). The photographer shares with the viewer: "I would shoot ruins of buildings, the demolition of famous waterfront saloons, ancient alleyways, and in some cases, 19th-century buildings destroyed by mysterious fires. There were images of floods and other calamities/ catastrophes in lower Manhattan, culminating with 9/11. These photos captured what had been, what no longer exists. They served as my visual timeline. What did the passage of the many decades reveal to me? What dynamics were in my images of the same streets I repeatedly walked for years?" Her images from the Fulton Fish Market in the 1980s document the generations of immigrants and their children pursuing a gritty American Dream next to the Brooklyn Bridge. 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 replacement, challenging us to ask, "What was lost?" In the 2000s, the seminal event: September 11th, 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 Giuliani's opportunistic crusade against them in the 1980s. Dan Barry, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, offers a poetic and insightful tribute to the artist and photographer. *Definitions: falling off suggests a decline in quality or quantity, falling off suggests the passage of time or changes over time, falling off suggests a detachment, an alternative path to a questionable destination, falling off suggests a separation, falling off suggests something that comes to pass.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own A Falling-Off Place books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

A Falling-Off Place

A Falling-Off Place

File Size : 64,64 MB
Total View : 1926 Views
DOWNLOAD

Photographer Barbara Mensch's rediscovered photo archives and interview tapes capture symbolic transformations of Lower Manhattan. Many of the images are publis

In the Shadow of Genius

In the Shadow of Genius

File Size : 49,49 MB
Total View : 7249 Views
DOWNLOAD

Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York Times In the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The

Falling Out of Place

Falling Out of Place

File Size : 61,61 MB
Total View : 9257 Views
DOWNLOAD

Sometimes we find ourselves on a gravel road, not sure of how we got there or where the road leads. Low-level teen fiction tackling tough and gritty topics like

The Falling Off Place

The Falling Off Place

File Size : 51,51 MB
Total View : 367 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Falling Off Place is a humorous look at what part chance and fate play in life. As the story unfolds, a disparate group of characters sets out, each member

Falling in Place

Falling in Place

File Size : 96,96 MB
Total View : 5758 Views
DOWNLOAD

An unsettling novel that traces the faltering orbits of the members of one family from a hidden love triangle to the ten-year-old son whose problem may pull eve