CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/19/2023

Vibrancy, diversity, coexistence and eccentricity in this Loisaida time-capsule from the late 1980s

A family hanging out in front of a bodega, a boarded up public bath, a car repair shop, a building collapse, bridge traffic on Delancey Street, a father and his daughters eating a lunch of boiled crabs on the sidewalk and this 1990 wrestling match on Clinton Street are just a few of the evocative archival photographs reproduced in Damiani's critically acclaimed Tria Giovan: Loisaida—collecting the noted American photographer’s NYC street work, 1984–1990. “The images are my response to a 1980s Lower East Side that has since been radically altered through waves of gentrification,” Triovan writes. “Universally, the images speak to the human condition. They reflect what is eternal and what is intrinsically New York City—vibrancy, diversity, coexistence and eccentricity.”