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COVER STORY
The Street
Kurt Andersen and photographer Joel Meyerowitz linger over the movies, music, painting and people that put life in the streets.
  TAT’s Cru
Back in the early 1980s, Wilfredo Feliciano and Sotero Ortiz became two of the best graffiti artists in the Bronx, illegally painting countless city walls and subway cars. The two are still at it today, but they’ve gone legit, and they’re teaching their kids about an energetic artistic sensibility born in the streets. Produced by Alicia Zuckerman
Go to the TAT’s Cru website
Go
to the Bronx Charter School For The Arts website
Cinematic Street
From Rocky to The 'Burbs, there are all kinds of ways the street gets featured on film.
Sarah Lilley explores how the street on the screen becomes, for the viewer, much more than a just scenic backdrop.
Go to Rocky on the Internet Movie Database
Boundary
The streets of southwest Chicago, with smokestacks and factories looming in the background, provide the setting for Stuart Dybek's writing. Dybek grew up in the neighborhoods known as "Little Village" and Pilsen. He’s working on a new book of poems called "Streets in Their Own Ink." Dybek reads a poem from that collection called “Boundary.” Produced by Edward Lifson.
Go
to the One Book, One Chicago webpage
Go
to a website on Dybek’s book “Streets In Their Own Ink”
 Panhandling
for Reparations
Conceptual artist Damali Ayo has an ongoing performance
called "living flag" that she’s taking to busy street corners all over
the country. For the performance, she collects reparations for the enslavement
of African Americans by sitting on the street as a panhandler. There,
on the sidewalk, Ayo accepts reparation payments from white passersby,
she offers them a receipt, and then she distributes that money immediately
to black people who pass by.
She’s been getting some interesting reactions. Produced by Dmae Roberts
and Damali Ayo with funding by HearingVoices.com through the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting. Additional assistance by Michael Johnson and
Catrin Einhorn.
Go
to Living Flag website
Go
to Damali Ayo’s website
Go
to the HearingVoices website
 SPECIAL
GUEST
Joel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz has been a photographer for over 40 years. His book Cape Light (1979) – still in print after 25 years-- is considered a classic in color photography. Meyerowitz’s images of the destruction and recovery at Ground Zero immediately after the September 11th 2001 attacks are some of the most powerful and stunning photographic documents from that period. An exhibit of his work called "After September 11: Images from Ground Zero" is currently touring to 200 cities in 60 countries. In addition to Cape Light, he is the author of several books including Tuscany: Inside the Light (2003) and Bystander: The History of Street Photography (1994).
Go to Joel Meyerowitz’s website
Go to the “After September 11” website
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