EAST HARLEM : The Postwar Years

2019 , Hardcover with the dust jacket , 176 page book.Illustrated with many photo images by Leo Goldsteim. Condition : NEW Size: 4to - over 9 - 12" tall

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For some 70 years, Leo Goldstein's East Harlembodyof work remained mostly untouched and unseen.The silver gelatin prints were catalogued in 2016, and a selection is gathered here for the first time.The photographs were taken over a number of years, beginning in 1949 when Goldstein was a memberof the Photo League.The East Harlem corpus, edited by Regina Monfort, represents an important and unique addition to thephotographic history of New York City. Because thereare no negatives in existence, it was of particularimportance to preserve the images in book form andmake them available to the public.The selected images reflect the postwar years in theEast Harlem community, which would grow intoa center of Puerto Rican culture and life in the U.S.From the families portrayed gathering on stoops, tothe kids at their shoeshine stations, to youths playingball in the streets, to posters on neighborhood walls, Goldstein's images of East Harlem provide a windowinto the socio-economic, cultural, and politicallandscape of the t

Product Info

ISBN: 1576879305

ISBN-13: 9781576879306

Publisher: Powerhouse Books

Year: 2019

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

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