Winner, The David R. Coffin Publication Grant A vibrant exploration
of the everyday life of one of the most diverse places in the
world: Queens, New York. Remade by decades of immigration, Queens,
New York, has emerged as an emblematic space of social mixing and
encounters across multiple lines of difference. With its expansive
subdivisions, tangled highways, and centerless form, it is also New
York’s most enigmatic borough. It can feel alternately like a big
city, a tight-knit village, a featureless industrial zone, or a
sprawling suburban community. Through more than 200 contemporary
photographs, Joseph Heathcott captures this multifaceted borough
and one of the most diverse places in the United States. Drawn from
more than a decade of roaming around Queens and snapping photos,
Heathcott conveys the juxtaposition of the ordinary and the
extraordinary, the mundane and the surprising, and the staggering
social diversity that best characterizes Queens. At the heart of
the story are two separate but entwined histories: the rapid
expansion of the borough’s built environment through the
twentieth century, and the millions of people who have traveled
from near and far to call Queens home. Newcomers have had to
confront discrimination, white racial hostility, legal challenges,
and language barriers. They have had to struggle to find adequate
housing, places to worship, and jobs that pay enough to survive.
And they have done all of this in the borough’s jumbled
collection of neighborhoods, housing types, civic and religious
institutions, factories and warehouses, commercial streets, and
strip malls. Heathcott makes primary use of documentary photography
to bring these social and spatial realities of everyday life into
relief. He also draws on demographic data, archival sources,
planning documents, news stories, and reports. The result is a
visual meditation on Queens that provides clues about an urban
future where notions of citizenship and belonging are negotiated
across multiple lines of difference, but where a sense of
”getting along”—however roughly textured and unfinished—has
taken hold in the everyday life of the streets.
General
Imprint: |
Fordham University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Joseph Heathcott
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Dimensions: |
254 x 254mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5315-0451-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5315-0451-5 |
Barcode: |
9781531504519 |
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