Tompkins Square Park
ISBN-13: 9781576874516
Contributor(s): Q. Sakamaki
Subject: Photography & Photographs
Publisher Imprint: Powerhouse
Publication Date: 02-09-2008
Format: Hardback
Availability: Out of stock
£25.00
About the book
Documents the resistance and struggle of people in the Lower East Side to exist as a community when faced with drastic gentrification in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It focuses on the park as a symbol and stronghold of the anti-gentrification movement, as riots proved a trigger to radicalise political movement. Living near the park, Q. Sakamaki witnessed the unravelling events that created one of New York's political movements, which he has captured in b/w photography.