Tag: Clayton Patterson

  • The Lower East Side’s Folk Historian | The New Yorker

    The Lower East Side’s Folk Historian | The New Yorker

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    The Lower East Side’s Folk Historian For four decades, Clayton Patterson has been the neighborhood’s most dogged artist-archivist. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lower-east-sides-folk-historian Patterson’s photographs served as plainspoken time capsules of the community. In a 2008 documentary called “Captured,” which chronicles his life on the Lower East Side, he says, “Looking out on the street…

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    Talking to…Photographer Clayton Patterson Photo by Elsaa Rensaa (via Gerry Visco) For 30 years, Clayton Patterson has doggedly documented the streets and culture of the Lower East Side, compiling a massive archive of the neighborhood and i… Link: http://discarted.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/talking-to-photographer-clayton-patterson/ We posted on Clayton Patterson’s most recent brush with the law at a crime scene last month and thought it would be interesting to…