‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’: New York City, 1980-2000 @ Bronx Documentary Center

‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’: New York City, 1980-2000
Bronx Documentary Center
January 14 - March 5, 2017

Photographers: Nina Berman, Bill Biggart, Donna Binder, Maximo Colon, Donna DeCesare, Ricky Flores, Frank Fournier, David Gonzalez, Lori Grinker, James Hamilton, Meg Handler, Lisa Kahane, Mike Kamber, Gabe Kirchheimer, Carolina Kroon, Corky Lee, Meryl Levin, Andrew Lichtenstein, Tracey Litt, Dona Ann McAdams, Thomas McGovern, Tomas Muscionico, Marilyn Nance, Edwin Pagán, Brian Palmer, Clayton Patterson, Mark Peterson, Sandra-Lee Phipps, Sylvia Plachy, Alon Reininger, Richard Renaldi, Clarence Elie-Rivera, Joseph Rodriguez, Linda Rosier, Q. Kyujiro Q. Sakamaki, Richard Sandler, Catherine Smith and Les Stone.

ANDREW LICHTENSTEIN

Squatters attempt to defend their building by blocking the street 

with overturned cars and trash before an expected attack 

by the police on East 13th Street, 1995 

© Andrew Lichtenstein - Courtesy of the photographer and the BDC

JAMES HAMILTON

Tompkins Square Park riot, New York City, 1988 

© James Hamilton - Courtesy of the photographer and the BDC

Featuring work by thirty seven independent photojournalists, this exhibit captures ordinary New Yorkers as they rallied, rioted, marched, and demonstrated. These stunning images document historic moments of violent confrontation such as the Tompkins Square Park and Crown Heights Riots and as well as organized protests involving non-violent civil disobedience and creative street theater. Collectively, these photographs, which have never before been exhibited together, chronicle New York’s history from 1980-2000. During these two decades of swift economic and demographic change, residents grappled with social issues including race relations, police brutality, housing and gentrification, AIDS and gay and lesbian rights, reproductive rights, U.S. foreign policy and military actions, art and the culture wars, environmental and animal rights issues, and education and labor relations.

RICKY FLORES

Day of Outrage demonstration at the Jay Street-Borough Hall 

subway station following the Howard Beach verdict on

December 21, 1987 in which three defendants were found 

guilty of manslaughter in the death of Michael Griffith who was

beaten and chased by a white mob onto a highway where 

he was struck by a car 

© Ricky Flores - Courtesy of the photographer and the BDC

SANDRA LEE PHIPPS

Pro-choice rally. NYC 1992 

© Sandra Lee Phipps - Courtesy of the photographer and the BDC

DONNA BINDER

ACT UP die-in at the LBGT Pride Parade on 5th Avenue. June, 1991 

© Donna Binder - Courtesy of the photographer and the BDC

The exhibit is co-curated by MEG HANDLER, former photo editor of The Village Voice, historian TAMAR CARROLL, author of Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty and Feminist Activism, and  MICHAEL KAMBER, founder of the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC). The exhibit was designed and produced by the BDC’s Cynthia Rivera and Bianca Farrow.

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