Passing Through Eden: Photographs of Central Park

Passing Through Eden: Photographs of Central ParkPublisher's text: Tod Papageorge started photographing intensely in New Yorks Central Park in the late 1970s and continued working there until he moved from the city in the early 1990s. More than ten years later, he edited these pictures into a book which, in its marriage of the sensual and poetic, evokes the prelapsarian Eden suggested by its title. This re issue of Passing Through Eden duplicates the first 2007 edition in its entirety, including

Tom’s world was populated by cowboys

published in 1965

Jenny Altschuler (events curator and workshop co-ordinator)

each piece pairs precision and light-hearted humour

humans migrated from Africa to the landmass we now call Europe

Revisiting the archives and associated materials that comprise their 17-year engagement with the high-rise building

we find that visual stimulation generally holds the key to success of a message

but also what it would mean to approach art properly—to really look

for it to be read

recycling barbed wire

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more than twenty female photographers have joined its ranks