Showing posts with label Mr. Softee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mr. Softee. Show all posts

Saturday, October 19, 2013

The Anniversary of Hurricane Sandy and My Work in the News

I am simply going to copy and paste what my agent Jeffrey Smith at Contact Press Images wrote yesterday when he posted the good news on Facebook that my long term photo book project was given some media attention on both Slate and Creative Time Reports. He says it so well and is such an articulate writer that I felt that it would be best to just leave this announcement in his own words.

I am terribly grateful that after years of hard work on this project that I am surrounded with such wonderful, thoughtful and caring and super intuitive and bright photo friends and a great photo agency to boot. I also must thank the wonderful Zoe Strauss who referred Marisa Mazria Katz--the editor at Creative Time Report--to me last year when the hurricane hit the peninsula.

I plan to post an image a day on my blog from the Rockaways that I shot either before or after Hurricane Sandy hit the peninsula and forever changed the hearts and lives of those who lived out there.

Here is an excerpt from my piece on Creative Time Reports:

"Hurricane Sandy marked the abrupt and unplanned end of my 10-year project photographing the once-forgotten neighborhood of Rockaway Park, known to the locals as Rockaway Beach. I first came out to the boardwalk at Beach 116th Street in the summer of 2002. I stood outside the Sand Bar and was instantly mesmerized when I witnessed a bartender jump over a bar with a baseball bat in his hands, chasing a disruptive and unruly customer off the premises. As I looked around the bar at the patrons—a mix of disheveled, raucous regulars and sunburnt beachgoers guzzling down cheap beer from plastic cups—I immediately became enamored with a scene that appeared to be a hundred miles away from the gentrified and homogenized streets of Manhattan. The neighborhood felt untouched by time. There wasn’t one Starbucks to be found on the entire peninsula. I decided to return the next week with my camera."


And here is a photo that I previously published, but recently found in my collection. This was taken in 2008 in front of Gloria Manor adult home where two of the residents, a married couple who share the same room had just bought some soft serve ice cream from the Mr. Softee truck that arrived like clock work in the afternoon, parked outside and served ice cream to the residents.



"Ester and David at the Mr. Softee Truck", Summer 2008, Rockaways, NYC. ©Juliana Beasley


Wednesday, December 17, 2008

New Editions from the Rockaways And Other Series for Sale!

"Fishbowl"


"Mr. Softee"


"Hotel"


"Trainer"


All of the above photographs are certifiable Rockaway Park images. All are 18X18", image size at 14.5X14.5" in edition of 15 and priced all at $300., except "Hotel" which is at $250.

Presently, all of the photographs listed here and below ("Last Stop: Rockaway Park", "City Heat" and "Eyes of Salamanca") are not linked directly to Pay Pal on my site, www.julianabeasley.com . Instead, they can be paid for by directly going to the Pay Pal website.
Payments should be made to jujubeasley@gmail.com.

Please, send me a confirmation number of the sale, the name of the photograph that you ordered, and your name and address, so that I can verify the information. I will then be able to send out your print expediently.

Don't worry, I still have more "Frieda", "Leopard Lady", "Last Stop: Diner" and "Miss Reingold".
All of which are featured on this blog on December 10, 2008 entry.

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