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Author(s):	Barbara G. Mensch

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1531504396
Pages:	116	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Photographer Barbara Menschs 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). The photographer shares with the viewer:

I would shoot ruins of buildings, the demolition of famous waterfront saloons, ancient alleyways, and, in some cases, nineteenth-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?

The authors 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 Manhattans skyline by encouraging new commercial shopping, food, and restaurant destinations. This restructuring marked the beginning of the end of downtowns blue-collar origins and white-collar replacements, challenging us to ask, What was lost?

The seminal event of the 2000s, September 11, 2001, reinforced downtowns 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 Giulianis opportunistic crusade against them in the 1980s.

Dan Barry, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist, offers a poetic and insightful tribute to the artist and photographer.

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