Upstate girls : unraveling Collar City : an intimate portrait of Troy, New York / Brenda Ann Kenneally.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenneally, Brenda Ann, author.

Contributor:

Hiram G. Haney Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor women.

History.

Women.

Troy (N.Y.)--History--Pictorial works.

Troy (N.Y.).

Women--New York (State)--Troy--History--Pictorial works.

Girls--New York (State)--Troy--History--Pictorial works.

Girls.

Poor women--New York (State)--Troy--History--Pictorial works.

Troy (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Girls--Social conditions.

Photojournalism.

Women--Social conditions.

New York (State).

New York (State)--Troy.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xvi, 412 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 28 cm

Edition:

First Regan Arts paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Regan Arts, [2018]

Summary:

In the tradition of Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank, an eye-opening portrait of the rise and fall of the American working class, and a shockingly intimate visual history of Troy, New York that arcs over five hundred years from Henry Hudson to the industrial revolution to a group of contemporary young women as they grow, survive, and love. Welcome to Troy, New York. The land where mastodon roamed, the Mohicans lived, and the Dutch settled in the 17th century. Troy grew from a small trading post into a jewel of the Industrial Revolution. Horseshoes, rail ties, and detachable shirt collars were made there and the middle class boomed, making Troy the fourth wealthiest city per capita in the country. Then, the factories closed, the middle class disappeared, and the downtown fell into disrepair. Troy is the home of Uncle Sam, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Rensselaer County Jail, the photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally, and the small group of young women, their children, lovers, and families who Kenneally has been photographing for over a decade. Before Kenneally left Troy, her life looked a lot like the lives of these girls. With passion and profound empathy she has chronicled three generations, their love and heartbreak; their births and deaths; their struggles with poverty, with education, and with each other; and their joy. Brenda Ann Kenneally is the Dorothea Lange of our time, her work a bridge between the people she photographs, history, and us. What began as a brief assignment for The New York Times Magazine became an eye-opening portrait of the rise and fall of the American working class, and a shockingly intimate visual history of Troy that arcs over five hundred years. Kenneally beautifully layers archival images with her own photographs and collages to depict the transformations of this quintessentially American city. The result is a profound, powerful, and intimate look at America, at poverty, at the shrinking middle class, and of people as they grow, survive, and love.

Contents:

Foreword

Family tree

Introduction

Part one. Girls and boys, life and death, ca. 2004-2006

Part two. Good bad girls, bad good girls, ca. 2006-2009

Part three. Beastmode, Tony, ca. 2009-2010

Part four. Blood and jelly, ca. 2011-2013

Epilogue : then and now.

Notes:

"August 2018"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-409).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hiram G. Haney Fund.

ISBN:

9781942872832

1942872836

OCLC:

975087524