Brooklyn Museum: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition

Artist Statement

The first night spent in the Terminal Market yard photographing the progress of its demolition I stood in awe of a modern ruin. Among the most recognizable buildings in Brooklyn, it was destroyed in a 10-alarm fire that called greater attention to the issue of land use in Brooklyn's real estate market. Though being considered for landmark status protection when destroyed, the site suggested history can’t protect modern ruins the way it does ancient ones – the land is too commercially lucrative. It was therefore important to record the last days of the structure before it was completely leveled.

22 Comments

Excellent image; you poignantly captured the mood and the sense of loss when a certain peculiar sort of lightning struck GTM.

Awesome picture !!

What an interesting use of light here...reminds me of a neoclassical landscape: a style that well serves the central focus of this exhibition

Beautiful photograph - the light captured and the angle, and the raw/real feeling.

sets me thinking. great colors and an ok composition. wish there was more of a 'story' here.

Utterly cinematic in its scope...you want to see this picture on the silver screen with music welling in the background.

Lovely image. Very apocalyptic, which is often how it feels during the reconstruction of Brooklyn.

Reminds me of the poem "Ozymandias"

Stirring.

This photo has a post-apocolyptic feel to it which to me characterizes the decimation of many neighborhoods for the sake of "development".

This combines the journalist impulse with the artist impulse. Before reading the photographer's caption I thought I was seeing routine demolition for new construction.

I like how erie the light is in this photograph. Something seems poised to happen, yet it also has the ethereal quality of ancient ruins, or the Roman Forum.

Seems historically meaningful but aesthetically undistinguished. Photos like this from Shanghai to Brooklyn

Nice composition. Striking color and atmosphere.

Modern ruins.

best use of light

Berlin 1945

I like the composition and lighting, but it doesn't speak to me of change - more of the past. No indication of transition.

this looks like a bombed-out area of Elsewhere...