Silent Beaches; Untold Stories: New York City's Forgotten Waterfront transports the reader into the extraordinary past and present embedded in New York City's more than 600 miles of coastline through a stunning selection of rare photographs; history; new fiction; and contemporary art. Each often chapters centers on one of New York City's lesser-known waterfront spaces: Dead Horse Bay; where the pre-automobile city's legions of horses once met their maker; Hart Island; New York City's still-active potter's field; where over 800;000 of New York City's unclaimed dead have been laid to rest; Sandy Ground; one of the earliest free black communities in the nation; made prosperous through oystering and strawberry farming. Elizabeth Albert has written historical texts on each location; and Underwater New York has selected ten new works of fiction; setting the stage where history; fiction; and image coalesce into a powerful and haunting experience. Silent Beaches features the work of internationally known and notable contemporary artists and writers; including Joel Meyerowitz; Mary Mattingly; Carrie Mae Weems; Spencer Finch; Susan Choi; Nelly Reifler; Ravi Howard; Antoine Wilson and others.
#8787273 in Books 2006-05-01Original language:English #File Name: 8190363638180 pages
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