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This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

Categories: North America | Photo project |

It seemed to photographer and photo editor Carrie Boretz that New York has always been crowded with people who only knew what to kiss, sleep and dream about the beautiful. Her book Street ("The Street"), which will be released one of these days, is dedicated to chronicling her adventures in the metropolis in the period from 1975 to 1998, when she, with bated breath, was engaged in research teeming with conflicts, anxiety, but at the same time kindness of the city.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

Collaborating with The New York Times, the photographer realized her predisposition to work again with those places to which she was emotionally attached. I must say that Carrie never wanted to cross the border of what is allowed by moral and ethical norms on the way to the epicenter of simple urban life. On the contrary, she has always sought to explore the city and its inhabitants, becoming one of them, trying on the sensitivity and vulnerability characteristic of New Yorkers. Her goal was never to talk about any "yellow" sensations, the main topic was small contradictions and collisions with circumstances that we often do not pay any attention to.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

In the most fruitful years of Boretz's work, New York was a rather tough and unforgiving city, but the pictures included in the Street tell about those most fragile, subtle connections between people, thanks to which the ideas of humanity have not yet sunk into the abyss. Some prefer to characterize those times as "the years when people had nothing sacred," but Carrie's pictures tell about the purity of hearts, which in itself seems to be some kind of incomprehensible, eternal jewel hidden somewhere nearby, dissolved in the air of parks, houses and intersections that never sleep.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

School playground, Harlem, 1994.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

A dinner party for members of the nature conservation committee.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

New York Subway, 1984.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

14-year-old Ella is playing Pacman, next to her baby. Brooklyn, 1983.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

Children are waiting for the bus, 1983.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

George Steinbrenner is hiding from everyone.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

Police Officers, Central Park, 1982.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

A couple cooing in the subway, 1980.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

Rizzoli Bookstore, 1975.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

Orchard Street, 1975.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

A couple in the subway, 1980.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

People are watching the fire.

This city never sleeps: the juice of the New York streets of the late XX century

Homeless people sleeping on a discarded sofa, 1981.

Keywords: Atmosphere | City | People | New york | Usa | Photographer | Photography | Humanity | Black and white photography