The Camera Club of New York

The photographs submitted with this application are from a series titled Brooklyn Streets and Lots. It is one of fourteen series from the larger work called Interborough, New York. Begun in 1997 and continuing today, Interborough is a long-term study of the civic related architecture of the outer boroughs and the connective infrastructure and waterways adjoining Manhattan.

As an excerpt, the six pictures are a partial representation of the range of civic structures to be found in Brooklyn. They include– one utility, one theatre, one hospital, one school, one subway station and bridge, and four houses of worship. The context is commercial and residential within the public domain.

The significance of the work is the role it plays in bearing witness to the changing urban landscape. From a piece commissioned for DoubleTake Magazine concerning people and place, I wrote:

”Architecture encompasses many possibilities of a place over time. It is a clear, physical measure of the relationship between a people and a place. I am interested in the ways that buildings convey their social and historical contexts. These pictures show a city of pieces and parts, there are no sweeping grand views. What remains is a vision of the architecture in situ – where related, and then unrelated structures coexist along streets and lots, because competing needs defined and dictated change.“

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