The East Village Then and Now

The East Village Then and NowWhen photographer Daniel Root moved to the East Village in the early 1980s, this constantly changing neighborhood was in one of its periods of greatest ferment. Multiple immigrant groups maintained enclaves thereincluding Ukrainians, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Dominicans, and Poleseven as drug dealers plied their trade in abandoned buildings and young artists flooded in looking for cheap rents, followed close behind by real estate speculators. Through

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some areas that were recently in the news after being ravaged by the tsunami

Botanica Magnifica

the literal meaning of “bonsai” is “tray plant”—the book also includes some twenty-five photographs of traditional bonsai containers

and her husband

while also tracking the latest developments in the watch industry

going to church

pressing outward against the walls and ceiling

She establishes a taxonomy of the corkscrew

to the new building in Pasadena

Yan Morvan decided to undertake a different kind of battlefield photography