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Center for Brooklyn History
This exhibition was originally organized and published by the Brooklyn Historical Society.
In Lost in Transition: South Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Coney Island, students from the Urban Memory Project turned their eyes toward the rapidly-changing face of their home borough.
Participating high school students used photography to capture and document the Brooklyn they knew: new development projects as well as existing structures they predicted will soon vanish - abandoned warehouses along the East River and the Gowanus Canal, small bodegas in quickly-gentrifying communities like Park Slope, and Coney Island's Astroland. They took their inspiration from 19th-century photographer Eugene Armbruster, who took thousands of photographs of the rural Brooklyn he saw disappearing, becoming a true grass-roots historian documenting the changing landscape of his era. Many of Armbruster's photographs accompanied those of the students.This exhibition was made possible through generous support from The Lily Auchincloss Foundation.
In Lost in Transition: South Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Coney Island, students from the Urban Memory Project turned their eyes toward the rapidly-changing face of their home borough.
Participating high school students used photography to capture and document the Brooklyn they knew: new development projects as well as existing structures they predicted will soon vanish - abandoned warehouses along the East River and the Gowanus Canal, small bodegas in quickly-gentrifying communities like Park Slope, and Coney Island's Astroland. They took their inspiration from 19th-century photographer Eugene Armbruster, who took thousands of photographs of the rural Brooklyn he saw disappearing, becoming a true grass-roots historian documenting the changing landscape of his era. Many of Armbruster's photographs accompanied those of the students.This exhibition was made possible through generous support from The Lily Auchincloss Foundation.