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“Tar Beach” is a book by photographer Susan Meiselas (born in 1948), a resident of Little Italy. This collection brings together family photographs taken, preserved, and passed down from generation to generation between 1940 and the early 1970s. The community’s stories offer the perspective of several generations, as local author Angel Marinaccio explains: “For every milestone—First Communion, Confirmation, wedding, graduation, or birthday—we’d dress up and go up to the roof to take photos and celebrate as a family.” ” The introduction to “Tar Beach” is written by renowned director Martin Scorsese, who grew up on the streets immortalized in this book. He writes: “The rooftop was our escape, our refuge. The ceaseless crowds, the grime, the constant noise, the chaos, the claustrophobia, the perpetual motion… We’d climb the stairs, open the door, and find ourselves above it all. We could breathe. We could dream. We could exist.” Meiselas, along with two of her neighbors, Angel Marinaccio and Virginia Bynum, collected and curated these photographs and memories of daily life to convey the unique atmosphere of this place and this era in the lives of Italian immigrants as they integrated into American culture.
Signed
Damiani, 2020
111 pages
15 × 21 cm
ISBN 9788862087223
“Tar Beach” is a book by photographer Susan Meiselas (born in 1948), a resident of Little Italy. This collection brings together family photographs taken, preserved, and passed down from generation to generation between 1940 and the early 1970s. The community’s stories offer the perspective of several generations, as local author Angel Marinaccio explains: “For every milestone—First Communion, Confirmation, wedding, graduation, or birthday—we’d dress up and go up to the roof to take photos and celebrate as a family.” ” The introduction to “Tar Beach” is written by renowned director Martin Scorsese, who grew up on the streets immortalized in this book. He writes: “The rooftop was our escape, our refuge. The ceaseless crowds, the grime, the constant noise, the chaos, the claustrophobia, the perpetual motion… We’d climb the stairs, open the door, and find ourselves above it all. We could breathe. We could dream. We could exist.” Meiselas, along with two of her neighbors, Angel Marinaccio and Virginia Bynum, collected and curated these photographs and memories of daily life to convey the unique atmosphere of this place and this era in the lives of Italian immigrants as they integrated into American culture.
Signed
Damiani, 2020
111 pages
15 × 21 cm
ISBN 9788862087223
