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Kibbitz and Nosh - When We All Met at Dubrow's Cafeteria (Hardcover)
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Kibbitz and Nosh - When We All Met at Dubrow's Cafeteria (Hardcover)
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On a winter's day in the mid-1970s the photographer Marcia Bricker
Halperin sought warm refuge and, camera in hand, passed through the
revolving doors of Dubrow's Cafeteria on Kings Highway. There,
between the magical mirrored walls and steaming coffee urns, she
found herself as if on a theater set, looking out at a tableau of
memorable Brooklyn faces. Enchanted, Halperin returned to Dubrow's
again and again. In Kibbitz & Nosh, Halperin reminds us of the
days when she would order a coffee, converse with the denizens of
Dubrow's on Kings Highway and at its other New York City location
in Manhattan's Garment District, and in that relaxed atmosphere
execute candid photographs. In keeping with the work of Vivian
Maier and Robert Frank, these black-and-white images taken during
the waning days of New York City's legendary cafeteria culture are
revealing and empathetic. Dubrow's was a restaurant-cum-social club
for a generation of New Yorkers; it was a place to chat with
friends, an escape from the confines of the family apartment, and a
space to dream while looking out onto the traffic on Kings Highway
or Seventh Avenue. Beyond Dubrow's on the sidewalks and in the
streets, the gritty and fantastic New York of the 1970s appears,
ready to come through the revolving doors to order a coffee and a
blintz. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and
the lauded historian of the Jewish-American experience Deborah Dash
Moore provide essays that illuminate and contextualize Halperin's
poignant photographs. Kibbitz & Nosh, with a whiff of nostalgia
and full of incisive visual commentary, is a revealing return to
this lost third place, the essential cafeteria.
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