South Street
Barbara G. Mensch
Paper, 192 pages, 133 Photographs
ISBN: 978-0-231-13933-5
$16.95
/ £10.00
April, 2007
Cloth, 192 pages, 133 Photographs
ISBN: 978-0-231-13932-8
$29.95
/ £19.95
"The photographs are haunting and intricate." — Gothamist
"The photographs, gathered in South Street, are stunning—intimate,dramatic, poignant." — The New York Observer
"Savoring the vivid faces in Ms. Mensch's photographs... and reading her picturesque profiles... you can almost still smell the fish." — Sam Roberts, New York Times
"A work of impressive scholarship combined with talented narration, South Street is enthusiastically recommended." — The Midwest Book Review
"An intimate look at lower Manhattan of the 1980s and the men who worked its docks and warehouses." — B & W (Black and White magazine)
"So compelling that one has a hard time putting it down... Highly recommended." — Choice
"Mensch has encapsulated a time and place so fully as to make us feel not as if we are looking at a photograph but rather happened on the scene as we turned a corner." — B & W
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About the Author
Barbara G. Mensch is a New York artist who has exhibited in the United States and Europe, at venues including The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; The Municipal Art Society of New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Lowe Gallery; The Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris; Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City; and Photokina in Cologne, Germany. Her work has been published in Natural History, Inc., Metropolis, and The New York Times, among many other periodicals, and she has contributed to a number of books, including Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images. Some collections including her work are The Brooklyn Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and The Museum of the City of New York. She is represented by the Bonni Benrubi Gallery, Inc. New York.
Phillip Lopate currently holds the Adams Chair at Hofstra University, where he is professor of English, and teaches in the MFA program at Bennington College. He has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. A writer of fiction, poetry, and film and architectural criticism, he is the author of numerous books, including Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan and Portrait of My Body, which was a finalist for PEN best essay book of the year.
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