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 Urban creatures: “The Chronicles of New York City” features photographs and intimate audio interviews with more than 1,200 New Yorkers, digitally put together into a giant mural.   JR 
 The big picture 
 Giant mural of New Yorkers debuts at Brooklyn Museum 
 HBy Aidan Graham e’s  really  put  the  focus  
 on Brooklyn! 
 An  enormous  new  
 interactive  photo  installation  
 documents the joy and beauty of  
 everyday life in the Big Apple.  
 The  exhibit  “JR:  Chronicles,”  
 which  opened  on  Oct.  4  for  
 an  eight-month  stint  at  the  
 Brooklyn  Museum,  features  a  
 two-story  high  mural  of  1,200  
 New York residents, all shot last  
 summer by  the renowned French  
 photographer known as JR, said  
 the show’s curator. 
 “He  traveled  around  the  five  
 boroughs  and  shot  people  up  
 close,  allowing  them  to  pose  
 however they wanted,” said Drew  
 Sawyer. “Then people told him a  
 little  bit  about  themselves  —  
 some  very  personal  anecdotes,  
 or about life in New York City  
 more  broadly.  There’s  an  app  
 that you can download to listen  
 to all of these recordings.” 
 In the summer of 2018, JR  
 set up his mobile photo studio  
 in various neighborhoods around  
 the city, recruiting passers-by and  
 photographing them in front of a  
 greenscreen.  Their poses and their  
 stories  were  an  effort  to  paint  a  
 complete story of city-dwelling  
 life, according to Sawyer. 
 “Some  people  posed  as  if  
 they  were  working,  some  are  
 walking  or  running,  some  
 people  are eating,” said Sawyer.  
 “And  the  subjects  are  from  
 everywhere.  Within  Brooklyn,  
 he  went  to  Flatbush,  Bed-Stuy,  
 Coney  Island,  Downtown,  
 Williamsburg  —  and  really  
 tried to capture a wide range of  
 residents  to  help  tell  the  larger  
 picture of the city.” 
 The  result  of  JR’s  monthslong  
 photo journalistic  effort  is  
 the  21-foot-high,  32-foot  wide  
 wide   mural,  “The  Chronicles  
 of  New  York  City,”  with  the  
 subjects  digitally  packed  
 together along the city skyline.  
 Visitors  can  download  an  app  
 to  hear  the  stories  of  people  
 featured  on  the  mural,  or  they  
 can  watch  a  short  documentary  
 screening  near  the  mural  that  
 depicts the art-making process,  
 said Sawyer. 
 “ ‘The  Making  Of’  is  a  
 10-minute  documentary  film  
 that  shows  the  people  who  
 participated, and how the crew  
 went  about  putting  together  the  
 extraordinary mural,” he said. 
 The exhibit also features a  
 chronological  timeline  of  JR’s  
 past  work,  which  has  gained  
 recognition for his ground-level  
 depictions of people  affected by  
 hot  button  political  issues  —  
 including  the  Israel-Palestine  
 conflict, gang violence in Brazil,  
 and housing issues in Paris. He  
 has  displayed  his  portraits  of  
 local  residents   where  they  live,  
 either  with  open-air  gallery  
 shows,  or  by  posting  giant  
 versions  of  his  images  on  walls  
 nearby,   giving  his  subjects  a  
 voice, said Sawyer. 
 “Often times, a photographer  
 will  travel  somewhere  where  
 an  event  is  taking  place,  like  a  
 political  uprising,  or  a  conflict  
 zone  …  and  tells  those  stories  
 for  a  foreign  audience,”  said  
 Sawyer.  “JR  turns  that  on  its  
 head, and really goes to a place  
 and spends time with the people  
 living  there  …  and  gives  his  
 subjects  an  opportunity  to  
 counter  the  mainstream  media  
 presentation.” 
 “JR: Chronicles” at the  
 Brooklyn  Museum  200  Eastern  
 Pkwy.  at  Washington  Avenue  in  
 Prospect  Heights,  (718)  638– 
 5000,  www.brooklynmuseum. 
 org.  On  display  through  May  
 of 2020. Wed–Sun; 11 am–6 pm.  
 $16 suggested admission. 
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 COURIER L 4     IFE, OCT. 11-17, 2019 
 ROSE GETS THORNY 
 Congressman announces support for Trump impeachment inquiry 
 BY ROSE ADAMS 
 Brooklyn Congressman Max  
 Rose  announced  his  support  
 of an impeachment inquiry of  
 President Donald Trump on  
 Wednesday night — falling  
 in  line  with  Speaker  Nancy  
 Pelosi and House Democrats  
 after initially resisting the effort  
 to eject the nation’s Commander 
 in-Chief from the Oval  
 Offi ce.  
 “The  American  people  
 have  a  right  to know  if  their  
 president  used  the  power  of  
 the  offi ce  to  ask  a  foreign  
 power to interfere in our elections,” 
  Rose told constituents  
 at a town hall meeting. 
 Until his announcement on  
 Wednesday,  Rose  was  one  of  
 only 12 Democratic members  
 of  congress  to  withhold  support  
 for  the  impeachment  effort, 
  which has gained steam  
 among  Democratic  lawmakers  
 in recent weeks following  
 revelations that Trump asked  
 Ukranian  President  Volodymyr  
 Zelensky to investigate  
 his  political  rival,  former  
 Vice President Joe Biden.  
 On  Sept.  23,  seven  fi rstterm  
 congress  members  and  
 former military veterans  
 signed  onto  a  Washington  
 Post   letter  supporting  impeachment, 
  but Rose — a fellow  
 veteran  and  freshman  
 lawmaker — was notably absent  
 from the op-ed. 
 A day later, House of Representatives  
 Speaker  Nancy  
 Pelosi  announced  her  intention  
 to  pursue  impeachment  
 — making the inquiry a near  
 certainty.  
 Rose  subsequently  issued  
 two statements — on Sept. 24  
 and  27  —  in which  he  called  
 the  impeachment  proceedings  
 a  “partisan”  process  
 that would only “deepen divisions” 
   across  political  lines,  
 and  claimed he needed more  
 time  to  review  the  “facts”  of  
 the controversial phone call.  
 “I will not operate on any  
 Congressman Max Rose fell into line with House Democrats in announcing his support for an impeachment  
 inquiry into President Trump.  Photo by Steve Solomonson 
 false  timeline  when  our  national  
 security  is  at  stake,”  
 Rose wrote. “My constituents  
 — and our country — deserve  
 Members  of  Congress  who  
 will  review  the  facts  and ensure  
 the American people are  
 fully informed.” 
 But  at  the  Staten  Island  
 meeting  on  Oct.  2,  Rose  
 changed  his  tune,  arguing  
 that  President  Trump’s  refusal  
 to  cooperate  with  the  
 investigation  constituted  an  
 impeachable offense.  
 “Instead  of  answering  
 our  questions,  the  president  
 and  his  administration  has  
 thrown more  fuel on  the fi re  
 with  their  stonewalling  and  
 obfuscation,” Rose said.   
 Liberal  critics  have  argued  
 that Rose’s trepidation  
 on  supporting  the  inquiry  
 stemmed  from  fear  of  alienating  
 constituents  of  his  relatively 
 conservative  district  
 —  which  Trump  won  by  16  
 points  in  2016,  and  has  only  
 elected  one  other  Democrat  
 in the last 30 years, according  
 to the  New York Times .  
 Rose’s  political  situation  
 is further complicated by the  
 formidable  candidacy  of  his  
 2020  Republican  challenger,  
 Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis  
 —  who  blasted  Rose  
 for  his  impeachment  support. 
 “Max Rose caved to socialists  
 Reps.  Alexandria  Ocasio  
 Cortez,  Ilhan  Omar,  and  
 Nancy  Pelosi  in  the  rush  to  
 impeach  President  Donald  
 Trump,” said Malliotakis. “It  
 just  shows  that  when  pressure  
 is  applied,  Max  Rose  
 stands  with  the  radical  left  
 instead of the majority of his  
 constituents.” 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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