Hart Island - Hardcover

Hunt, Melinda

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ISBN 10: 393114190X ISBN 13: 9783931141905

Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac, 1998

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A photographic journey through this public burial ground in New York, where over three quarters of a million people have been buried since its purchase in 1869.

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Destined to land close to each other in a library collection, these two books are so different they might be describing two worlds, not one city. Rajs shoots his New York as if he were on an assignment for National Geographic. His city is rich in polychrome power. It is so lovingly composed that to a native New Yorker, it looks like somewhere else. The dazzle that Rajs captures is not in daily routine but in the wonder of photography that builds glory through mastery of the medium by aiming at places, moments, and urban majesty. Hamill provides a fine opening essay that is long on history, careful about nostalgia, and realistic about the ups and downs of New York City. No glistening monument to human industry, Hart Island in New York Harbor has supported a cemetery, a charity hospital for women, an insane asylum, a jail, and now a cemetery again. Artists Hund and Sternfeld show it to be a secret place?a small island full of common graves, long trenches filled with pine boxes of forgotten dead?and in the process throw a meteor at people who think they know New York. Their photographs are generally brown and gray, visions of a lonely place in a lonely winter. The labor pool for the death detail is a cadre of prisoners from the city's jail at Riker's Island. These tough urban men seem softened by their work, by the finalization their digging brings to lives that never really got started. No single part of this book seems masterly?not Hunt's introductory essay, not the straightforward photographs under heavy clouds, not the images of crudely marked coffins large and small. But as a carefully collected volume, it is a moving and memorable portrayal of a secret place crammed with anonymous New Yorkers. Both books are recommended.?David Bryant, New Canaan P.L., CT
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PublisherScalo Verlag Ac
Publication date1998
ISBN 10 393114190X
ISBN 13 9783931141905
BindingHardcover
Number of pages119
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Melinda Hunt / Joel Sternfeld. Hart Island.

Joel Sternfeld und Melinda Hunt

Published by Scalo Verlag, Z�rich (1998)

ISBN 10: 393114190X ISBN 13: 9783931141905

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Neu. Joel Sternfeld und Melinda Hunt (illustrator). 1. Auflage. Melinda Hunt / Joel Sternfeld. Hart Island. Z�rich, Scalo, 1998. 245:285mm. 119S. Durchgehend farb. illustr. Or.-Ppbd. mit farb. illustr. Or.-Schutzumschl�gen. Erstausgabe. Text Engl. von Melinda Hunt. Photographien von Joel Sternfeld und einigen von Melinda Hunt. "Hart Island was a reform.oriented extension of the penal, welfare and healthcare systems. Located at the western end of Long Island Sound, in the northeastern Bronx in New York City. The island's first public use was as a training ground for the United States Colored Troops in 1864. Since then, Hart Island has been the location of a Union Civil War prison camp, a psychiatric institution, a tuberculosis sanatorium, a potter's field with mass burials, a homeless shelter, a boys' reformatory, a jail, and a drug rehabilitation center. The remains of more than one million people are buried on Hart Island. Burials on Hart Island include individuals who were not claimed by their families or did not have private funerals; the homeless and the indigent; and mass burials of disease victims.From 1991 to 1993, New York artist Melinda Hunt and photographer Joel Sternfeld photographed Hart Island for their book, which was published in 1998. Hunt subsequently founded the Hart Island Project organization in 1994 to help the families and friends of those buried on Hart Island. ". Seller Inventory # 190124

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