Addict's Damn: An Interleaving of Architecture and the Homeless - Softcover

Chassler, Joseph; Bellamy, Peter

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Synopsis

A book of hard-core urban street photographs by Peter Bellamy coupled with gritty beautiful poems by Joseph Chassler this remarkable book is on life in street form. Darkness..Animal Passions...in a way that somehow ennobles them...They take us in...Show us secrets...Forbidden Paths...We join the addicts, alcoholics, junkies, and homeless, lie on the sidewalk, watch shoes and feet go by, and try to find the way back home.

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About the Author

Peter Bellamy has been a teacher at Pratt Institute since 1996. He has published two books: The Artist Project, Portrait of the New York Art World; and Addicts Damn, a study of urban homelessness, despair and renewal. He is currently working on a third book of wilderness photographs. He has been in residency at Yaddo and received two faculty development grants from Pratt Institute. He graduated from Pratt with honors with a BFA in photography.

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We are becoming the Germans of our
nightmares
That we are also junkies, faggots, tax -
evaders, small time cheats and losers
is icing on the cake.

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