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Item specifics
- Condition
- Ex Libris
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9781576877340
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
powerHouse Books
ISBN-10
1576877345
ISBN-13
9781576877340
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201620844
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kill City : Lower East Side Squatters 1992-2000
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Photojournalism, Poverty & Homelessness, General, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa), Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Social Science, Photography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
45.7 Oz
Item Length
12 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-957184
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Anyone wondering about the end of bohemia can consult this book, which documents its last incarnation, at least in New York City. Few bohemians can ever have worked as hard as the squatters, who earned their homes and their lives; they were rewarded with forcible and violent eviction. Ash Thayer's remarkable pictures chronicle a time, only two decades ago, that seems impossibly distant now." --Luc Sante, Author of Low Life "Thayer's work here is a time capsule, a vision of a way things were, a city that once was. It reminds us that the DIY spirit is in the heart of this city. We must, against all pressures, show those who come after that there are other ways ." --Jesse Bransford, Chair, Department of Art and Art Professions at NYU "Captures a remarkable period in NYC's recent history" - The Guardian "Unlike most journalists and photographers, who often time gave squatters 'bad press,' Ms. Thayer was able to document the movement and her friends through a lens of intimacy that has rarely been captured." - New York Observer "The photographs, in both hazy color and black and white, are shot with celestial lighting in a direct, candid style" -Fast Company As Seen In: The New Yorker, "Anyone wondering about the end of bohemia can consult this book, which documents its last incarnation, at least in New York City. Few bohemians can ever have worked as hard as the squatters, who earned their homes and their lives; they were rewarded with forcible and violent eviction. Ash Thayer's remarkable pictures chronicle a time, only two decades ago, that seems impossibly distant now." --Luc Sante, Author of Low Life "Thayer's work here is a time capsule, a vision of a way things were, a city that once was. It reminds us that the DIY spirit is in heart of this city. We must, against all pressures, show those who come after that there are other ways ." --Jesse Bransford, Chair, Department of Art and Art Professions at NYU, "Anyone wondering about the end of bohemia can consult this book, which documents its last incarnation, at least in New York City. Few bohemians can ever have worked as hard as the squatters, who earned their homes and their lives; they were rewarded with forcible and violent eviction. Ash Thayer's remarkable pictures chronicle a time, only two decades ago, that seems impossibly distant now." --Luc Sante, Author of Low Life "Thayer's work here is a time capsule, a vision of a way things were, a city that once was. It reminds us that the DIY spirit is in the heart of this city. We must, against all pressures, show those who come after that there are other ways ." --Jesse Bransford, Chair, Department of Art and Art Professions at NYU
Dewey Decimal
779.9307336
Synopsis
After being kicked out of her apartment in Brooklyn in 1992, and unable to afford rent anywhere near her school, young art student Ash Thayer found herself with few options. Luckily she was welcomed as a guest into See Skwat. New York City in the '90s saw the streets of the Lower East Side overun with derelict buildings, junkies huddled in dark corners, and dealers packing guns. People in desperate need of housing, worn down from waiting for years in line on the low-income housing lists, had been moving in and fixing up city-abandoned buildings since the mid-80s in the LES. Squatters took over entire buildings, but these structures were barely habitable. They were overrun with vermin, lacking plumbing, electricity, and even walls, floors, and a roof. Punks and outcasts joined the squatter movement and tackled an epic rebuilding project to create homes for themselves. The squatters were forced to be secretive and exclusive as a result of their poor legal standing in the buildings. Few outsiders were welcome and fewer photographers or journalists. Thayer's camera accompanied her everywhere as she lived at the squats and worked alongside other residents. Ash observed them training each other in these necessary crafts and finding much of their materials in the overflowing bounty that is New York City's refuse and trash. The trust earned from her subjects was unique and her access intimate. Kill City is a true untold story of New York's legendary LES squatters., After being kicked out of her apartment in Brooklyn in 1992 and unable to afford rent anywhere near her school, art student Ash Thayer found herself with few options to keep a roof over her head. Luckily she was soon welcomed into a new squat in New York's East Village. The squatters were forced to be secretive and exclusive as a result of their poor legal standing in the buildings and few outsiders were welcome and fewer photographers or journalists. Ash observed them training each other in necessary crafts, all the time documenting with her camera.
LC Classification Number
TR654
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