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| Photographs by Tema Stauffer, George Tice, and Martha Cooper |
I’ll be giving a presentation on Friday, November 7th to an art history
class at Ramapo College on photographic representations of Paterson, New Jersey
over the course of several decades.
The lecture combines selections from my portrait series in Paterson with
images from George Tice’s Paterson I and Paterson II, as well as documentary
photographs by Martha Cooper, Susan Levitas, and others shot for the Working in Paterson Project in the archives of the Library of Congress. This collection of around 4,000
photographs shot in Paterson in 1994 studies ways in which community life and
values are shaped by work and how the theme of work intersects with themes of
family, ethnicity, gender, neighborhood, and change over time. Thank you to Professor Meredith Davis
for the invitation to speak to her class and to George Tice for contributing
additional Paterson images from his publication, Seldom Seen, for this
occasion.
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