Audrey Gottlieb photographer shows view of Queens
Queen’s architecture first transfixed Gottlieb, she became fascinated when I explore the place on foot with her camera, this was a place where people lived, loved, and worshiped, and did not merely pile into office buildings; the Queens Botanical Garden’s new photography exhibit, Gottlieb’s series of photographs of Queens, taken from the early 1990s onward, to represent the diversity of the borough in all its color, energy, and exuberance.
As a borough of startling diversity and contradiction, Queens can be a playground for an artist with an especially astute eye. Dozens of nationalities may share a single square mile. New urban megaliths will cast their shadows on the edge of verdant and mesmerizing parkland. For photographer Audrey Gottlieb, Queens was always the perfect place to aim her camera.
“I was drawn by light reflecting off the East River,” said Gottlieb, of Queens, from her new bucolic home in Maine.
Queens is never far from her mind, and her vision will now be known to everyone who visits the Queens Botanical Garden’s new photography exhibit, “Vignettes from the Queens Project.” Gottlieb’s series of photographs of Queens, taken from the early 1990s onward, are meant to represent the diversity of the borough in all its color, energy, and exuberance.
The 25-piece exhibit’s spiritual beginning came when Gottlieb, then living on Roosevelt Island, wandered across the bridge into Long Island City. She was working at the United Nations as a photographer – in 1993 she was flown to Somalia to take photos during a time when the country was embroiled in a violent showdown with the United States.
She had also never walked around in Queens. As a freelance photographer, she soon became acquainted with the borough, taking… continue reading
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