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Upcoming interview with artist Allan Ellerby

by Tommy Manuel

I dis­cov­ered Allan Ellerby’s work while look­ing for images to accom­pany one of my pre­vi­ous posts. I’m pleased to say he has agreed to an inter­view that will be posted here later, but first, an intro­duc­tion is in order.
Ellerby was born in Hull, York­shire in Eng­land in 1952 and became inter­ested in pho­tog­ra­phy around the age […]

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New York City’s Waterfront in Photographs on View at Museum of the City of New York

by Tommy Manuel

NEW YORK, NY.- The dra­matic trans­for­ma­tion of the New York City water­front from a hub of indus­try and com­merce to a ves­ti­gial space reclaimed for recre­ation and pub­lic use will be doc­u­mented in his­toric pho­tographs by Berenice Abbott, Andreas Feininger, and David Rob­bins, and con­tem­po­rary pho­tographs by Diane Cook and Len Jen­shel, in an exhibition […]

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Housing Bias Persists, Fueled by the Internet (Gotham Gazette, August 31, 2009)

by Tommy Manuel

Hous­ing Bias Per­sists, Fueled by the Inter­net
by Jil­lian Jonas
August 31, 2009
Source: Gotham Gazette
It’s been some 40 years since the fed­eral Fair Hous­ing Act was passed allow­ing the Depart­ment of Jus­tice to pros­e­cute “pat­terns or prac­tices” of hous­ing dis­crim­i­na­tion” and 20 years since that act was amended to per­mit the depart­ment to act against municipalities […]

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Urban Archeology through a Dark Passage

by Tommy Manuel

On the heels of my inter­view with Har­ald Fin­ster, I dis­cov­ered this inter­est­ing orga­ni­za­tion based right here in New York City.

The descrip­tion from their web­site follows:

Dark Pas­sage was con­ceived in 1998 with the pur­pose of per­pet­u­at­ing the spirit of the long-defunct San Fran­cisco Suicide Club.

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UPDATE: Manhattan Studio Summer 2009

by Tommy Manuel

Andrew Mac­Nair sent along this updated sched­ule for the workshop/seminar he is orga­niz­ing this sum­mer.  It’s an exper­i­men­tal research and design stu­dio on “Top­i­cal Future of the City.” The course will run from June 9 to July 30, meet­ing Tues­days and Thurs­days, 7-9pm in Mid­town Cam­pus. Guest speak­ers are planned for the Thurs­day night ses­sions (see the sched­ule below). The […]

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