![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since then Meiselas, along with Virginia Bynum and Angel Marinaccio, have worked to collect these pictures and the anecdotes, memories and tales that go with them. These “candid yet formal” images leapt out to Meiselas as she reviewed the community’s vernacular photographic history as part of the Mott Street Memory Project in 2015. The photographic phenomenon Meiselas refers to, and which the book charts and exposes to outside eyes, is that of Little Italy’s familial home photographs, shot on the tar-painted roofs of the area. But, as she writes in the introduction to her new book, Tar Beach, she “never even imagined what had been happening on the rooftops surrounding me.” Susan Meiselas has lived in the portion of Manhattan known as Little Italy since 1974, and made some of her most famous images and projects on the neighborhood’s streets. ![]()
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