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This Great, Diverse City: How Should We See It?
CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHS OF NEW YORK CITY

Dennis Clerkin

 

Children Reading, Chinatown

Manhattan

1.75 x 8.25 in.

NFS

 


I am very grateful to be taking part in this exhibition about the great diversity in NYC. In his talk What of New York and Poetry? Mr. Siegel said of NY, “There is a oneness of quiet and tumult, profundities and mischief.”  I see this in my photograph of two young children resting so comfortably on, of all things, egg crates, concentrating on the books they are reading. Where?—On a New York sidewalk amidst all the activity going on around them. This includes the lively patterns of dark and light on the van behind them which seem to me like an outward manifestation of their own lively, profound thought.

 

At the South Street Seaport

Manhattan

5 x 10 in.

$300 - framed
$250 - unframed

In the photograph "At the Seaport" the atmosphere of quiet seems to predominate. But look! There is much activity. Living beings are going in all different directions, including the pigeon in the foreground. Even the A-frame has an animated, mischievous quality as if it doesn't intend to just stay where it is, and there is the twirl of steam rising mysteriously behind it. Then there is the woman in silhouette whose heel is lifted just high enough out of the shadow to make for a drama of geography, space, and a graceful leg.

 

Yankee Stadium

the Bronx

15 x 10.125 in.

$300 - framed
$250 - unframed

Dennis Clerkin

There is profundity in the expressions of these young men looking up with the radiant light on their faces. You could easily think they were in church instead of enjoying a ballgame at Yankee Stadium anxiously awaiting the result of a play that is taking place on the field.
   

Crossing
New York Harbor


15 x 10.25 in.

$300 - framed
$250 - unframed

Deninis Clerkin

In "Crossing NY Harbor" we see the geography of NY. On the deck of the ship I was taken by those lively angles made by elbows, legs, and round hats on heads—all part of the people taking in something that is mysterious to us—the water below.


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