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Condition
Like New: A book that has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust ...
ISBN
9780292759428
Book Title
Bronx Boys
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Item Length
9.3 in
Publication Year
2014
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1 in
Author
Stephen Shames
Genre
Travel, Social Science, Photography, Biography & Autobiography
Topic
General, Individual Photographers / Artists' Books, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa), Customs & Traditions, Photoessays & Documentaries, Subjects & Themes / General, Sociology / Urban
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Width
7.1 in
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
0292759428
ISBN-13
9780292759428
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202482436

Product Key Features

Book Title
Bronx Boys
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Individual Photographers / Artists' Books, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa), Customs & Traditions, Photoessays & Documentaries, Subjects & Themes / General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Social Science, Photography, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Stephen Shames
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
7.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-007311
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
974.7/275
Synopsis
Bronx Boys captures the violence, resilience, and hope of young men growing up in what was one of the toughest and most dangerous neighborhoods in the United States., "The Bronx has a terrible beauty, stark and harsh, like the desert. At first glance you imagine nothing can survive. Then you notice life going on all around. People adapt, survive, and even prosper in this urban moonscape of quick pleasures and false hopes. . . . Often I am terrified of the Bronx. Other times it feels like home. My images reflect the feral vitality and hope of these young men. The interplay between good and evil, violence and love, chaos and family, is the theme, but this is not documentation. There is no story line. There is only a feeling."--Stephen Shames A 1977 assignment for Look magazine took Stephen Shames to the Bronx, where he began photographing a group of boys coming of age in what was at the time one of the toughest and most dangerous neighborhoods in the United States. The Bronx boys lived on streets ravaged by poverty, drugs, violence, and gangs in an adolescent "family" they created for protection and companionship. Shames's profound empathy for the boys earned their trust, and over the next two-plus decades, as the crack cocaine epidemic devastated the neighborhood, they allowed him extraordinary access into their lives on the street and in their homes and "crews." Bronx Boys presents an extended photo essay that chronicles the lives of these kids growing up in the Bronx. Shames captures the brutality of the times--the fights, shootings, arrests, and drug deals--that eventually left many of the young men he photographed dead or in jail. But he also records the joy and humanity of the Bronx boys, who mature, fall in love, and have children of their own. One young man Shames mentored, Martin Dones, provides riveting details of living in the Bronx and getting caught up in violence and drugs before caring adults helped him turn his life around. Challenging our perceptions of a neighborhood that is too easily dismissed as irredeemable, Bronx Boys shows us that hope can survive on even the meanest streets., "The Bronx has a terrible beauty, stark and harsh, like the desert. At first glance you imagine nothing can survive. Then you notice life going on all around. People adapt, survive, and even prosper in this urban moonscape of quick pleasures and false hopes. . . . Often I am terrified of the Bronx. Other times it feels like home. My images reflect the feral vitality and hope of these young men. The interplay between good and evil, violence and love, chaos and family, is the theme, but this is not documentation. There is no story line. There is only a feeling."--Stephen ShamesA 1977 assignment for Look magazine took Stephen Shames to the Bronx, where he began photographing a group of boys coming of age in what was at the time one of the toughest and most dangerous neighborhoods in the United States. The Bronx boys lived on streets ravaged by poverty, drugs, violence, and gangs in an adolescent "family" they created for protection and companionship. Shames's profound empathy for the boys earned their trust, and over the next two-plus decades, as the crack cocaine epidemic devastated the neighborhood, they allowed him extraordinary access into their lives on the street and in their homes and "crews." Bronx Boys presents an extended photo essay that chronicles the lives of these kids growing up in the Bronx. Shames captures the brutality of the times--the fights, shootings, arrests, and drug deals--that eventually left many of the young men he photographed dead or in jail. But he also records the joy and humanity of the Bronx boys, who mature, fall in love, and have children of their own. One young man Shames mentored, Martin Dones, provides riveting details of living in the Bronx and getting caught up in violence and drugs before caring adults helped him turn his life around. Challenging our perceptions of a neighborhood that is too easily dismissed as irredeemable, Bronx Boys shows us that hope can survive on even the meanest streets.
LC Classification Number
F128.68.B8S53 2014
ebay_catalog_id
4
Copyright Date
2014

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