Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx by Ray Mortensen

Ray Mortenson, Untitled (7-16-6), 1984, Gelatin silver print. © Ray Mortenson, courtesy Janet Borden, Inc.

At the Museum of the City of New York now through March 8.

"NEW YORK.- Documenting the abandoned, burnt out, and razed structures of entire city blocks in the South Bronx in the aftermath of the 1970s, during which this neighborhood experienced dramatic decline, Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx by Ray Mortenson will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York from November 14, 2008 through March 9, 2009. The 50 black and white cityscapes and interiors on view—five of which are large-scale—were taken between 1982 and 1984, and they vividly illustrate the results of a downslide that began in the Great Depression of the 1930s and accelerated with the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway in the 1950s and the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. Broken Glass is Mortenson’s first museum exhibition in New York City, and it is the first presentation of the South Bronx photographs..."

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Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am - 5 pm

$9
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