FRAGILE DWELLING : How the Homeless Create Places of Their Own
MARGARET MORTON / Introduction By Alan Trachtenberg
Language: English
Published by Aperture Foundation Inc, New York, 2000
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1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 2000, Hardcover with the dust jacket, 128 page book. A very excellent work by the late photographer Margaret Morton , her black & white full page plates show how the homeless survive in the city of New York. Condition : Fine / jacket is Near fine with very light edge rubs. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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- Title
- FRAGILE DWELLING : How the Homeless Create Places of Their Own
- Author
- MARGARET MORTON / Introduction By Alan Trachtenberg
- Publisher
- Aperture Foundation Inc, New York
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0893819158
- ISBN 13
- 9780893819156
- Illustrator
- Author
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Photography / Art / Monograph / Documentary
Over a ten-year period, Margaret Morton documented the inventive ways in which homeless people in New York City have created not only places to live but also communities that offer a sense of pride, place, and individuality.
Morton's camera reveals the ingenuity of builders who have constructed homes out of discarded materials such as warehouse pallets, junked auto parts, and demolition scrap. Her luminous photographs bring to light the determination and aesthetic sensibilities of all but forgotten people whose temporary encampments became permanent homes until they were demolished by the city. Seen together with compelling oral histories by the builders, Fragile Dwelling tells the universal story of a need for personal space and the resilience of the human spirit.
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About the Author
Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Grey Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, is the author of, among other books, Reading American Photographs: Image as History and From Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (Hill & Wang). He writes and lectures often on American literature, photography, and cultural history.
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