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On The Waterfront
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| 1978, 1995-99 |
| Description: Photographs made along the Hudson River
Waterfront from Battery Park City to 59th Street |
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| 42nd
Street |
| Theaters Under Siege (1989-99) |
| Description: Inspired by the remnants of grandeur and
commissioned to document work being done to stabilize and rescue the
nine theaters on 42nd Street, I was able to photograph interior spaces
and vintage architectural details not accessible to the public as well
as facades and streetscapes. |
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| Times
Square ~ 42nd Street |
| Outer Smut (1977-79) |
| Description: "The Yantras of the West!" also known as "Outer
Smut" document buildings and signage in violation of 1970's 'blight'
ordinances. |
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| ASIA |
| Men and Boats (1983-4) |
| Description: On the Waterfront in India, these images
document a lifestyle and transportation mode that has endured through
centuries. |
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| ASIA |
| Benaras (1974, 1984) |
| Description: Living in Benaras at Assi Ghat on the banks on
the holy Ganges River in 1974 and again in 1984 afforded a visual feast,
spectacular photograhic fodder, and daily interaction with the
practices of devout Hindus and ablutions particular to this culture. |
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| WOMEN
AT WORK |
| The Dominica Portfolio (1978, 1988) |
| Description: Commissioned by the United Nations Development
Program in 1978 to document conditions at the time of Independence from
Great Britain and ten years later to follow up this development
visually. |
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| WOMEN
AT WORK |
| The Asia Portfolio (1973-5, 1983-4) |
| Description: 'Close Encounters with Contemporaries in the
Third World!' and there but for the grace of God go any of
us...portraits of women made in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and
India. |
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| Great
Aunt Belle (1987-89) |
| Aunt Belle & Madge |
| Description: My great aunt, Belle Hopp, the oldest retired
'spinster' school teacher in New York City, lived to be 108 1/2. During
the last two years of her life I was able to interview and photograph
her in the upper west side apartment she inhabited since her retirement
in 1941. |
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| WITH
CHILD |
| Portraits of Pregnant Women (1986-99) |
| Description: More than one hundred portraits of nude pregnant
women, mostly black and white images made in the studio and on
location. One series of nine images show one women monthly throughout
her pregnancy. |
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