Sanctuary (Creating the North American Landscape)
Contributors: Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Introduction)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: June 19, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780801869556
Subjects: Photographs: collections; Religion: general; Religious buildings; Photography, Artistic; Individual Photographers And Their Work; Subjects & Themes - Travel - U.S./Mid-Atlantic; Photography; Photo Essays; Photo Techniques; New York; Architectural & Industrial; Techniques - Black & White; Architecture / Landscape; Roma, Thomas; Church buildings; Pictorial works; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; General; City churches; New York (State)
First sentence: Sanctuary refers to a place of worship and a state of mind-it also refers to the most sacred part of a Christian church, the site where the altar is housed.
Description: "In Sanctuary, acclaimed 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 urban landscape and how the African-American and Hispanic communities living there now have worked to make these neighborhoods, culturally and spiritually their own."--Jacket.