TEMA STAUFFER @ Baxter St at the Camera Club of NY

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TEMA STAUFFER @ Baxter St at the Camera Club of NY

May 30th, 2015 by fstop

TEMA STAUFFER: Paterson
June 6 – 27, 2015

Opening Reception June 6, 2015 | 6 – 8pm

Paterson is a series of documentary street portraits depicting residents of a post-industrial city in New Jersey during the years following the American economic crisis. Paterson is a historic city near the Great Falls of the Passaic River, once prosperous from its mills and silk manufacturing industry. Founded in 1791 by Alexander Hamilton and others and envisioned as the nation’s first planned industrial city, Paterson offered jobs and opportunity to an immigrant labor force in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and it was a stop on the Underground Railroad. The city is the setting of novels by Junot Diaz and John Updike, and has inspired the poetry of William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg, as well as photography by George Tice. The third largest city in New Jersey, Paterson began to decline economically during the 1960s and 70s, and has continued to face high rates of unemployment since the recession. Downtown Paterson is lined with dollar stores, barbershops, beauty salons, bakeries, bars, churches, temples, and other small businesses. While its downtown streets are bustling, these streets are also a place of visible struggle.

Baxter St at the Camera Club of NY | 126 Baxter Street | New York | NY | 10013

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