In the Bronx, Capturing Beauty in the Bad Old Days of 1979

In the Bronx, Capturing Beauty in the Bad Old Days of 1979 – NYTimes.com:

Thirty years ago this summer, I returned to the South Bronx, where I grew up, with a Yale diploma in one hand and a beat-up Pentax camera in the other. Raised to get a good education, become a doctor and escape, I had instead come right back to teach photography — on Charlotte Street, no less, the world’s most famous slum.