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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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