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Barbara Mensch @ The Tin Building
“Mombo,” an unloader, inside the Tin Building, around 1 a.m., 1982. By Barbara Mensch.
Barbara Mensch: The Nobility of Work
Ongoing
The photos are on view to the public from 1-10 p.m. daily
“The Nobility of Work” is a site-specific permanent installation by Barbara Mensch drawn from her photographs made during the 1980s on the waterfront in lower Manhattan. The project was commissioned by the Howard Hughes Corporation and celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten for the new Tin Building, a shopping and dining complex located on the site of the former Fulton Fish Market, below the Brooklyn Bridge. For over 200 years, this market was crucial to the operations of the East River waterfront, making New York City into the most powerful mercantile center in the country. The installation called for dynamic ways to capture the attention of visitors as they entered and exited this public space. Mensch’s original negatives, mostly shot with her favored Rolleiflex camera, were reconsidered in a digital format for three large walls of electronic screens of various sizes and configurations.
The Tin Building
96 South St., New York, NY 10038
Location: New York, New York City Type: Exhibition
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