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Title: Flophouse : Life on the Bowery by Stacy Abramson, Harvey Wang, David Isay ISBN: 0-375-75831-3 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One paycheck away...
Comment: The reason we are so drawn to (and, in the same breath, repulsed by) books such as this one is that they show us the truth that is locked up inside of us. They present a side of reality many do not see in pursuit of the paycheck running from the fears presented in this book. And, yes, the reasons why they are at the 'flophouse' is infinitely complicated.
The photos are stunning and the stories are minimalist which has a gripping effect. The photos and the stories open up a world that is almost mythical. Penetrating is the word that comes to mind.
Study them, feel them, connect with them, learn to love them. But do not judge them and do not run from them. Hold onto them and, in the midst of our bustle and struggle, keep them dear in our hearts. And, if one is so compelled reach out, not as veoyeurs, but with compassion, sharing with, realizing that our human wholeness is dependent upon such individuals as these whose lives may be unlike anything we could imagine.
For only when we are willing to get 'real' and walk in the valley of the shadow of death, and this with others, can we ever really become human. These characters are but a shadow of aspects of our own selves.
Rating: 5
Summary: Eye-Opening
Comment: Turn away. Turn quickly away. My first instinct upon glancing at this title was consistent with Middle Class America's natural reaction to social despair. Cautiously intrigued, I reached to the top shelf in my suburban neighborhood's local library, and pulled down into my comfortable suburban world an enlightening pictorial in brief. With mixed horror and wonder, increasingly awed at these victims of circumstances, reading "Flophouse: Life on the Bowery" was a real look, a first look, into sunken faces and disheveled lives. Black and white photos say the thousand words their subjects never will. The human condition, bare, innate, is plainly presented without pretense or censoring. How very similar, how frighteningly normal, were the lives of these men before the loss of job, wife, or sanity deposited them here, teetering on the brink between life and death, heaven and hell, New York City's Bowery. Read this book, count your blessings and your spare dimes.
Rating: 5
Summary: Flophouses
Comment: I live in a modern day "flophouse", but it is a palace by comparison to the Bowery beaus. Marginalized by themselves and society, many still find community and purpose in their shared
space. Some do not make it out alive. Most seem to have given up on big dreams but it's the little ones (like the shoeshiner) who states that if one of us can make it, we can all make it. I love reading about of these mens' lives, but I also admit to an uneasiness that they will never leave the relative safety of a flophouse. That this is the best there is for many of them, and watching them adjust to these facts in each vignette is tender.
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Title: The Sunshine Hotel by Stacy Abramson, David Isay ISBN: 1931173028 Publisher: Sound Portraits Productions Pub. Date: 09 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers by Ken Light, Kerry Tremain ISBN: 1560989483 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Up River: The Story of a Maine Fishing Community (Library of New England) by Olive Pierce, Carolyn Chute ISBN: 0874517567 Publisher: University Press of New England Pub. Date: 15 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Architecture of Despair) by Margaret Morton ISBN: 0300065590 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor On the Little Big Horn by Larry Colton ISBN: 0446677558 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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