Brooklyn Photographs Now

About this book

Brooklyn has seen exponential change over the past fifteen years and this book presents the best work of the photographers from all over the world who have been capturing those changes and movements in cityscapes portraits vignettes and process-oriented photography. Brooklyn Photographs Now reflects the avant-garde spirit of the citys hippest borough containing previously unpublished work by well-known and emerging contemporary artists. The book presents 250 images by more than seventy-five established and new artists including Mark Seliger Jamel Shabazz Ryan McGinley Mathieu Bitton and Michael Eastman among many others. The book documents the physical and architectural landscape and reflects and explores an off-centeredand therefore a less-seen and more innovativeperspective of how artists view this borough in the twenty-first century. This is the now Brooklyn that we have yet to see in pictures: what might seem to be an alternative city but is actually the crux of how it visually functions in the present day. This unique collection of images is the perfect book for the photo lover and sophisticated tourist alike.