125th Street

Photography In Harlem

Harlem’s 125th Street is a marker of 20th-century urban experience that encapsulates powerful stories of business and consumption, real estate and gentrification, glamourand entertainment, and political uprising. The book explores works and themes from a large roster of photographers and performance artists who have engaged with the Berenice Abbott, Khalik Allah, constant mutation of this street life.

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The photographs in this book represent narratives of resilience and poems of survival against a rapid and sweeping movement of history across 125th street, where buildings and communities are periodically destroyed and built anew. The works shape a sense of belonging and identity that goes against the stereotyping and mystification of this neighborhood. It contributes to the writing of a new history of photography that is collective and collaborative.

Photographers:
Berenice Abbott
Khalik Allah
Alice Attie
Dawoud Bey
Kwame Brathwaite
Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel
Lola Flash
Hiram Maristany
Ozier Muhammad
Katsu Naito
Marilyn Nance
Ruben Natal-San Miguel
Lorraine O’Grady
Gordon Parks
Pope.L
Jamel Shabazz
Coreen Simpson
Beuford Smith
Ming Smith
Morgan and Marvin Smith
Shawn Walker
Hai Zhang

press commentaries

The book offers a unique showcase of both street photography and the cultural identity of New York's Harlem neighborhood, shaped by its residents. // Der Band bietet eine einmalige Schau sowohl zur Straßenfotografie als auch zur kulturellen, von deren Bewohnern geprägten Identität des New Yorker Stadtteils Harlem.

Das Fotoportal

This successful illustrated book shows the means people use to stage themselves on 125th Street and how resistance to construction projects is forming there. // Der gelungene Bildband zeigt mit welchen Mitteln sich Menschen auf der 125th Street in Szene setzen und wie sich dort Widerstand gegen Bauvorhaben formiert.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Details

Ed. Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Arden Sherman

In stock

172 pages, 136 colour and b/w illustrations
20.3 × 25.4 cm, Hardcover

HIRMER PREMIUM
Including a fold out

ISBN: 978-3-7774-3734-7