tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428509001430417120.post2752825414383290736..comments2023-04-07T08:03:28.864-04:00Comments on Laura Goggin Photography: The Destruction of Lower ManhattanLaura Goggin Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15517481509431547970noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428509001430417120.post-13708830355288771142010-12-21T11:17:12.204-05:002010-12-21T11:17:12.204-05:00awesome post, thanks for this...awesome post, thanks for this...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05729006202539563631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428509001430417120.post-86504844373523664302010-12-20T15:03:52.797-05:002010-12-20T15:03:52.797-05:00Thanks, CoS
It's interesting how our attitude...Thanks, CoS<br /><br />It's interesting how our attitude towards our environment changes with each generation. I'm wondering if there will be a return to beauty and detail after we've had enough of boring glass boxes.<br /><br />Although this downtown area wasn't very residential in the 1960s, I still find it amazing that there seems to be no collective memory of this demolition even though it happened fairly recently. If it weren't for Lyon, I don't think we'd have any photographic record of it.<br /><br />Another area I'm interested in is the East Side of Manhattan from Cooper Village in the north all the way down to the housing projects north of the Seaport. Entire neighborhoods were wiped out and streets disappeared. I know the area east of Avenue D had a lot of wood-framed houses and dirt streets. <br /><br />I guess progress and abandonment go hand in hand...Laura Goggin Photographyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517481509431547970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428509001430417120.post-45103278695111155662010-12-19T19:01:26.194-05:002010-12-19T19:01:26.194-05:00Hi Goggla,
Great post. I'll have to look ...Hi Goggla, <br /><br /> Great post. I'll have to look up Danny Lyon's book. The cycle of destruction has long fascinated me - it's not just New York, by any means. Most of the cities I knew in western Canada as a kid almost totally destroyed their historical architecture. I have a theory that it was part of the post-war culture of forgetting - the war had been so horrible that people, collectively, wanted to get rid of momentos of the past and focus on the future. The space age!!<br /><br /> Well, not quite. I wonder what people will remember of the East Village (or any neighborhood like it in London, Montreal, Paris) in, say, ten or fifteen years. Why does our culture have such a need to abandon and forget? When I visited Detroit last year, I often asked myself that question. Gentrification is just another means of abandoning after all . . <br /><br /> T.City Of Strangershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12158677428956744517noreply@blogger.com