A book of photographs by Wijnanda Deroo

Essay by Molly Kalkstein - Kalkstein is the Horace W. Goldsmith Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Edition of 300 copies, soft cover, 8.5 x 11 in (22.7 x 28.9 cm)

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At its height, COVID-19 emptied the streets of pedestrians and vehicles alike....  Deroo documented this moment...in her 2022-24 series of New York streetscapes…
 Deroo presciently embarked on her systematic documentation of New York's dining sheds at what turned out to be a transitional moment, a few months before the city began demolishing abandoned sheds and formulating a more permanent plan to regulate and standardize outdoor dining.  Deroo's photographs...thus stand as documents of an era that is already receding, and of a landscape on the cusp of another transformation....  Trees, scaffolding, and apartment buildings loom over the sheds' roofs.  Shop fronts and yellow cabs peep through their windows.  Locked bikes, signposts, mailboxes, and parking meters vie for space outside the sheds' entryways, while parked cars nose up to their walls.  The dining sheds appear as rooms within rooms, floating stage sets squeezed into a few feet of available space as the city continues to jostle around them....  Even uninhabited, early in the morning or late at night, these sheds take on a range of personalities, and embody the spirit of their respective neighborhoods.

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