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Loisaida New York Street Work 1984 – 1990
The 11.5 x 8.25 inch hardbound book features 77 color photographs with an essay by Sean Corcoran, photography curator from the Museum of the City of New York.
Designed by award-winning designer Yolanda Cuomo, the book was printed and bound in Bologna, Italy November 2022 and will be published by Damiani Books and distributed by DAP in May 2023.
16 x 20 inch archival pigment print
All images from the series available from the ten print edition. Select your print from scroll above or triagiovanphotography.com/loisaida
$2,500
24 x 30 or 30 x 40 inch archival pigment print
All images from the series available from the five print larger edition. Select your print from scroll above or triagiovanphotography.com/loisaida
$3,000
Loisaida New York Street Work 1984-1990
One signed advance copy of Loisaida New York Street Work1984 - 1990
$70
“Through Giovan’s beautifully muted color photographs we are given a window into the resiliency of a neighborhood – the life of its community and the evolution of its built environment.” —Sean Corcoran
In 1984, I moved to a tenement building on Clinton Street on New York City’s Lower East Side. I wandered the streets photographing as if in a foreign land. Loisaida – as it is known to some – was as gritty, authentic, and humble as it was exotic, vibrant and colorful. The melding cultures and humanity I encountered inspired these photographs.
I left the neighborhood and the work behind in 1990 without ever editing or producing the majority of the photographs. The negatives languished until the pandemic. Resurrecting this series through editing, scanning, and sequencing for book form, I apply a contemporary perspective to historical photographs.
Loisaida New York Street Work 1984-1990 is a time capsule; a cultural and historical record of a 1980s Lower East Side that has been forever altered through waves of gentrification. Part preservation, part humanistic engagement, this project contributes to an historical visual legacy of the ever-evolving, always evocative Lower East Side.
Tria Giovan’s photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Library of Congress, The Parrish Art Museum, The Jewish Museum and The NY Public Library among others. Three monographs of her work have been published to date: Cuba The Elusive Island by Harry N. Abrams in 1996, Sand Sea Sky by Damiani Books in 2012, and The Cuba Archive-Photographs 1990 to 1996 by Damiani Books in 2017.