Clayton Patterson's FRONT DOOR BOOK
$38.00
$38.00
The Front Door photos are a summation of everything I have ever learned. The photos are taken in
front of the door at 161 Essex Street, which leads into Clayton Hats, Clayton Gallery and the Outlaw
Art Museum. This also happens to be the place I live.
The front door represented two things for me: It was the Wall of Fame where I played host to many of the local graffiti writers and it was the background for many of the shots from the Hall of Fame The period represented is from 1985 to 2002. The vast majority of the photographs were of Hispanics who lived on the Lower East Side. The L.E.S. in the ’80s and into the ’90s was not the hip place it is today. For the most part, the photos were representative of people who lived in the section that outsiders considered dangerous and that was normally out of bounds for those who had no business being there.
Softcover, 9 x 12 inches, 160 pages, different paper stocks and more including over 100 pages of full color original photographs and 56 pages of documented oral history by those who lived it.
The front door represented two things for me: It was the Wall of Fame where I played host to many of the local graffiti writers and it was the background for many of the shots from the Hall of Fame The period represented is from 1985 to 2002. The vast majority of the photographs were of Hispanics who lived on the Lower East Side. The L.E.S. in the ’80s and into the ’90s was not the hip place it is today. For the most part, the photos were representative of people who lived in the section that outsiders considered dangerous and that was normally out of bounds for those who had no business being there.
-excerpt from essay by Clayton Patterson
Softcover, 9 x 12 inches, 160 pages, different paper stocks and more including over 100 pages of full color original photographs and 56 pages of documented oral history by those who lived it.
