Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Clayton Patterson Book Release
Legendary downtown documentor, Clayton Patterson has just releaseded a new book with Miami based, OH WOW Gallery. The Front Door Book is of 160 pages of nearly two decades of photographs taken by Patterson in front of the main door leading into his home and elusive gallery. – If there’s any question of where A-Ron got the idea for aNYthings back door photos, look no further.
He describes it better than we can:
“The front door represented two things for me: It was the Wall of Fame where I played host to many of the local graffiti writers and it was the background for many of the shots from the Hall of Fame The period represented is from 1985 to 2002. The vast majority of the photographs were of Hispanics who lived on the Lower East Side. The L.E.S. in the ’80s and into the ’90s was not the hip place it is today. For the most part, the photos were representative of people who lived in the section that outsiders considered dangerous and that was normally out of bounds for those who had no business being there.”
This one’s worthy of adding to your book shelf. Buy it here, or get it along with a DVD of the documentary film Captured, which turned Patterson into the subject.
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