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Harlem: On the Verge
by Alice Attie, Robin D. G. Kelley
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Quantuck Lane Press (2003-09)
ISBN: 0971454876
EAN: 9780971454873
Dewy Decimal #: 974.71
Hardcover: 128 pages
SKU: V405ABH
Condition: New
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Product Description
The colour portraits in this book document both the people and buildings of Harlem on the eve of great change. Gentrification and the influx of large chain stores are replacing small businesses, store fronts, memorials on walls and other visual evidence of the complex range of cultural identities had woven into the streets of their neighbourhoods. With a sense of both dedication and desperation (to beat the developer's clock) Alice Attie has produced a record of a world rapidly being lost.
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Images Of A Harlem Gone By
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-04-29
I'm not from Harlem but it makes me no less sympathetic to the gentrification of the place that birthed the "Black Renaissance". This book has a very nice foreward that will capture in words what the artist is trying to say in her photographs.
I have made a few visits to Harlem and saw some of what Ms. Attie portrayed in her photographs - national chain stores like Old Navy and H&M, cops harassing street vendors just trying to make it, and the worst of all, a large majority of the older stores that have been in the community for decades boarded up. It's very sad. I just wish there would have been more photographs, I didn't want it to end. I also noticed that on or near page 65 is a portrait of 3 children, one little girl has on a pink shirt. This portrait was also used on the cover of the book, "American dream : three women, ten kids, and a nation's drive to end welfare" by Jason DeParle. Just thought I'd point that out. Good job Ms. Attie!!
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