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

Joseph Chassler; Peter Bellamy

ISBN 10: 0962599433 / ISBN 13: 9780962599439

Published by Artist Project, 1995

About this Item

Light edge wear to the wraps with a small tear to the top of the wrap at the spine. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy. Signed by Peter Bellamy on the first page.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1559695544506

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Addict's Damn: An Interleaving of Architecture and the Homeless
• Publisher: Artist Project
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962599433
• ISBN 13: 9780962599439
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Collectible
  • Signed
  • Poetry

About this title

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.

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.