Complex geometry : New York City Housing Authority, Brooklyn / all photography, Ian Reid ; writing by Trymaine Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, Ian, photographer.

Contributor:

Lee, Trymaine, 1978- contributor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public housing--New York (State)--Brooklyn--20th century--Aerial photographs.

Public housing.

Aerial photography--New York (State)--Brooklyn--Buildings, structures, etc.

Aerial photography.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc--Aerial photographs.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

108 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Gingko Press Inc, [2022]

Summary:

Photographer and documentarian Ian Reid was born and raised in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. In 2018 he set out to photograph 23 public housing developments in Brooklyn from above. His goal was to preserve the architecture and to present the structures without any preconceived notions of what goes on within. The images are framed by the streets they are defined by, often showing how they look with the changing seasons. Gentrification and development have changed the surroundings of the public housing, but the buildings and its residents for the most part stay the same. Complex Geometry respects the true residents of Brooklyn and pays homage to where Reid grew up and still spends a great deal of his time.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Complex Geometry

Albany

Bayview

Boulevard

Breukelen

Brevort

Brownsville

Bushwick CDA

Carey

Cooper

Farragut

Fort Greene

Gravesend

Howard

Hughes

Kingsborough

Linden

Marcy

Pink

Red Hook

Riverdale

Sumner.

Notes:

Date of publication from Amazon.com.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781584237709

1584237708

OCLC:

1299379891