MIXED USE MANHATTAN

When recession plagued New York City abandoned its industrial base in the 1970s, performance artists, photographers, and filmmakers found their own mixed uses for the citys run-down lofts, abandoned piers, vacant lots, and deserted streets. Gordon Matta-Clark turn ed a sanitation pier into the celebrated work Days End and Betsy Sussler filmed its making/ the photographic team Shunk-Kender shot a vast series of images of Willoughby Sharps Projects.Mixed Use, Manhattan documents and illustrates these projects as well as more recent work...[Read more]