Maria Scheinfeld’s Photos of Dilapidated Resorts in the Catskills

Resorts Reborn in Decay

Homesick for the Catskills resorts of her childhood, the photographer Marisa Scheinfeld returned to the bastions of her past as a trespasser and archaeologist.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/resorts-reborn-in-decay/

They were the grand palaces of her childhood, the fortress hotels where her family celebrated Jewish holidays, where a girl from the Catskills could run wild or hear stories about how her grandparents met. She learned to swim in the pool at one hotel and worked as a summer lifeguard at another. Then, when she left for college on the West Coast, Marisa Scheinfeld, 32, found herself “grappling with homesickness.”