Sanctuary (Creating the North American Landscape)
Editorial Reviews Review
"From shabby storefronts to soaring cathedrals, from Iglesia Pentecostal Apocalipsis to St. Joseph's Roman Catholic, this photo book documents the churches of Brooklyn. In gentle black-and-white, against the trash and light of the city, Roma's pictures capture all the ways immigrants and citizens, rich and poor have made homes for God in the harsh urban landscape."--Molly Marsh, Sojourners Review
"The buildings we build are the embodiment of our aspirations and our achievements. Above all, they express our values. They describe how we co-exist with others and, in the case of churches, how we co-exist with God and aspire to transcendence. Making a place for God, whether on the walls of doomed buildings or within steepled churches, is the subject of Thomas Roma's seemingly effortless study. He shows us that the place for God is anywhere within the tangled web of commerce, desire, domesticity and failure invisibly woven into our urban landscape."--Susan Kismaric, Curator of Photography, Museum of Modern Art
"Tom Roma's pictures of churches in Brooklyn are so good: so understanding of the comfort they afford and the central role they play in the poorest communities even more than in more affluent neighborhoods. Roma's photographs convey this without the sentimentality of special pleading; instead, they are modest and eloquent."--Sandra S. Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Sanctuary (Creating the North American Landscape)
Sanctuary (Creating the North American Landscape),Thomas Roma,Henry-Louis, Jr. Gates,The Johns Hopkins University Press,0801869552,Architectural & Industrial,Church buildings,City churches,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,General,Individual Photographers And Their Work,New York,New York (State),Photo Essays,Photography,Photography, Artistic,Pictorial works,Subjects & Themes - Travel - U.S./Mid-Atlantic,Techniques - Black & White,Art / General,Roma, Thomas
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