Chinatowns across the nation, is very near and dear to me. Gentrification is a phenomena and more complex than Public Discourse would have us believe. We are in logan square in chicago where catalytic investments like the 606 rail to trails project forced residents to move because they cannot upkeep the increasing cost of housing and in other neighborhoods folks are leaving for a different reason because you havent seen investment in decades. If we as a city does learn from our mistakes we will continue to suffer from unintended consequences related to gentrification, inaccessible education, housing, displacement. So much to do and we are thrilled the conversation is resonating with a lot of people. As such tonights event will be shown by season and live tweeted using equity section, the hashtag for the metropolitan Planning Council asked metro planning. A short question and book signing so when that time occurs, sarah is going to walk around with the mic. Wait for her to get to you. I
Photography as a mechanism for poverty in new york city during the late 19th and early 20th century. Like of congress for the book hosted this event. Thank you everybody. Im here to introduce bonnie yochelson. Whom i was lucky enough to work on the book. Bonnie is originally from the d. C. Area. But shes made her long time home in new york city. She graduated from college. Pursued a masters and doctorate from new york university. Early in her career; he was back in d. C. Working in the print room. From 1987 she was a curattor of prints and photographs at the museum at the city of new york. Thats since leaving the museum, shes been an independent curator and photographic historians working with the New York Historical society and the south Sea Port Museum. Since 1988 she taught in the msa program in the department of photography, video at the school of visual arts in new york. In addition to the thesis show bonnie carried numerous exhibition at the ubs art gallery in new york in 2001. T
All while writing this book and compiling the first catalog of riiss photograph. In the years it has taken to get these exhibitions mounted and this book published kb eed bonn worn ever single type of hat in the business and none of this could have been possible without her talent, energy and passion for her subject. With that, i will let bonnie take the stage. [ applause ] jacob rhys. Amy, thank you so much, im moved. Thank you very much. Welcome, everyone. Okay so im going to read pretty much lets see what we have to say here. The jacob im going repeat what amy did to just make sure that we understand how these different parts of this project fit together. The jacob riis exhibition now on view in the Jefferson Building at the library of congress is the result of a collaboration of the past several years between the library and the museum and the city of new york. The museums owns riiss photograph of new york city slums in the late 19th century. These photographs are the earliest evid
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