A Falling-Off Place by Barbara G. Mensch, Dan Barry - 9781531504397

A Falling-Off PlaceThe Transformation of Lower Manhattan\nAuthor(s): Barbara G. Mensch, Dan Barry\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531504397, 978-1531504397\nSynopsis\nPhotographer Barbara Mensch's rediscovered photo archives and interview tapes capture symbolic transformations of Lower Manhattan.\n Many of these images are published here for the first time. The photographs evoke the passage of time by dividing the images into three parts: the 1980s, the 1990s, and the new millennium (2000 and beyond). The photographer shares with the viewer:\n \""I would shoot ruins of buildings, the demolition of famous waterfront saloons, ancient alleyways, and, in some cases, nineteenth-century buildings destroyed by mysterious fires. There were images of floods and other calamities/catastrophes in Lower Manhattan, culminating with 9/11.\n These photos captured what had been, what no longer exists. They served as""