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Open 24 Hours series |
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This photographic project-in-progress consists of a series of images taken in and around businesses 'open 24 hours' in New York's East Village. The project began with deli's and garages on my own block, and has expanded outward to cover over 75 locations. The phrase 'open 24 hours' belongs to a utopian imagining of the modern city, in which the loosening of temporal or spatial restrictions on individual lifestyles also promised an analogous social mobility, free of distinctions of class, race, religion, or gender. This project aims to take the abstraction of 'open 24 hours' and expose and test it against the heterogeneity of New York's social space. |
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Michael Wilson, from 'Tar Beach' essay, 2003 'Tar Beach', The Times and The Guardian, May 2003 |
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