{"product_id":"godlis-miami-9781909526846","title":"Godlis: Miami","description":"\u003cp\u003ePortraits of a long-lost art-deco world of Jewish retirees  lawn chairs and palm trees In January 1974  David Godlis  then a 22-year-old photo student  took a ten-day trip to Miami Beach  Florida. Excited to visit an area he had frequented a decade earlier as a kid  Godlis set his sights on an area of art deco hotels  a Jewish retiree enclave on the expansive beaches facing the Atlantic Ocean. These retirees  all dressed up in their best beach outfits  would spend their days on lounges and lawn chairs  playing cards amid the sunshine and palm trees. Photographing this somewhat surrealistic scene  Godlis discovered his own street photography stylean eclectic mix of Robert Frank  Diane Arbus  Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. Godlis shot 50 rolls of black-and-white film in just ten days  making his way up and down the beaches  photographing what he didnt know then was essentially the end of an era. The area he photographed in 1974 is now the infamous South Beach. This volume reproduces this account of a vanished Miami Beach for the first time. Born in New York City in 1951  David Godlis picked up his first camera in 1970. He stumbled into the burgeoning punk scene at CBGB on the Bowery in the mid-1970s  where  after seeing Brassas photographs of 1930s Paris  he began to photograph with long handheld exposures under the Bowery streetlights  portraying the Ramones  Television  Richard Hell and Blondie  documented in his first book History Is Made at Night. Since the late 1980s he has been the unofficial official photographer for the Film Society of Lincoln Center  covering the New York Film Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45529630539829,"sku":"ByrdShop_1909526843","price":498.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781909526846.jpg?v=1780939593","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/godlis-miami-9781909526846","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}