In his latest book Loisaida New York Street Work 1984–1990, Tria Giovanni presents an evocative chronicle of the halcyon days of New York’s Lower East Side.
In 1984, Tria Giovan moved into an apartment building on Clinton Street on New York’s Lower East Side. She wandered the streets photographing as if in a foreign country. Loisaida, as some call it, was as dirty, authentic and humble as it was exotic, vibrant and colorful. The fusion of cultures and humanity she encountered inspired these photographs. Giovan left the neighborhood and the work behind her in 1990 without ever editing the majority of the photographs. The negatives languished until the pandemic.
Tria Giovan: Loisaida New York Street Work 1984–1990, published by Damiani, is a time capsule; a cultural and historical testament to a 1980s Lower East Side that gave rise to strong communities of diverse populations, including the many immigrants who took pride in making Loisaida their home. His images invite curiosity and evoke nostalgia for a place from a bygone era that has been forever altered by waves of gentrification. Both preservation and humanistic engagement, this project contributes to an ever-changing and ever-evocative historical visual legacy of the Lower East Side.
“Through Giovan’s beautifully muted color photographs, we get a view into the resilience of a neighborhood – the life of its community and the evolution of its built environment. » —Sean Corcoran
The photograph of Tria Giovanni (b. 1961, raised in the Caribbean) has been defined by an in-depth, timely, and thoughtful exploration of subject matter that blends personal and observational. A documentary filmmaker with archival intentions, she is the author of Cuba: The Elusive Island (1996), Sand Sea Sky: The Beaches of Sagaponack (2012) et The Cuba Archive (2017). Exhibited in the United States and around the world, his photographs are part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Library of Congress, the Parrish Art Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Museum of the City of New York and from the New York Public Library. His work has been published in Aperture, Architectural Digest, Geo, Harpers, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, The Smithsonian, Travel & Leisure, Vogue, The Washington Post and in many other publications.
Sean CorcoranCurator of Prints and Photographs, Museum of the City of New York, contributes an essay.
Edited by DAMIANI
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