Sanctuary
Thomas Roma(Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 19. June 2002
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-8018-6955-6 (ISBN)
Description
In "Sanctuary", photographer Thomas Roma offers a compelling sequence of 52 black-and-white images that document the varieties of religious experience in Brooklyn as seen in the borough's sacred architecture. Juxtaposing pictures of grand Gothic and Romanesque churches photographed at a distance from backyards and alleys with more intimate views of smaller places of worship housed in converted storefronts and dilapidated brownstones, Roma subtly calls attention to issues of history and class, revealing how successive waves of immigrants have shaped Brooklyn's urbanscape and how the African-American and Hispanic communities living there now have worked to make these neighbourhoods, culturally and spiritually, their own.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Illustrations
52 duotones
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 241 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-6955-6 (9780801869556)
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Person
Thomas Roma is director of photography and an associate professor of art at Columbia University's School for the Arts. A two-time Guggenheim Fellow, Roma has exhibited his photographs in solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography. His previous books include Higher Ground, Come Sunday and Enduring Justice.