Album de photographies d'enfants jouant dans les quartiers défavorisés de New York. ©Electre 2024

New York's alphabet city in the 70s

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« Coopers'remarkable photos capture the spontaneous and improvisatory nature of children's play. Most of all her photos illuminate the way the city itself, with its alluring fire hydrants, manhole covers, and rooftops, became a gameboard in an era when unsupervised play offered children a free school of the streets. »
-Steve Zeitlin, Director of City Lore

« Street play is the outdoor interactions activities of children when free from adult supervision. Through street play, children apply their powerful imaginations to their environment, making full use of its unique space, materials and the available cast. The result is often a rich expression of games, some highly structured with teams and score, others resembling improvisational theater, where participants portray make believe figures or mimic the behaviors of neighborhood adults and older siblings.

Martha Cooper has spent much of her career capturing these miraculous moments in a variety of urban and rural settings. Here we are taken back to the 1970s, when large swaths of New York City's poor minority neighborhoods were being consumed by the fires of urban decay. Ms. Cooper reveals the innocence and the harsh realities facing these children as their exuberant play is juxtaposed against the abandoned shells littering the landscape in Manhattan's legendary Lower East Side. In this fascinating work, Ms. Cooper moves the viewer beyond the substance of the material and evokes profound questions on the eternal and entwined relationship of spiritand stone. »
-Mick Greene, founder of www.streetplay.com