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Time Square 45 Yrs
Stoumen, Lou
160 pages, Hardcover
First published January 28, 1985
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August 4, 2025
The photography is good, sure, and I guess that should be what a book of photography is judged upon. As a piece of writing/book construction, however, I found this to be alarming. Lou's captions and narrative around the place of Times Square is brazenly patronizing, frequently remarking upon the changes in demographics (mainly that people of color are more present in Times Square in 1980 than in 1940) with the type of so-called neutrality that papers over a deeply troubling belief in the decay of the social fabric. Very much like talking to so-seeming pleasant liberal boomers who "don't go to the city anymore," except Lou was there!
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