"The East Village Then & Now" Photo Book Launch with Daniel Root

Talk Highlights:

• Peek inside the new photo book, The East Village Then & Now, and see the same locations 40 years apart as captured by Daniel Root, who has lived in the neighborhood since the 1980s
• Then: View photos of:
  • a young Madonna filming Desperately Seeking Susan
  • the storefront galleries of the East Village art scene
  • Life Cafe, where Jonathan Larson would write—and set—Rent
  • punks hanging out on St. Marks Place
  • retirees playing chess in Tompkins Square Park
• Now: Analyze how the neighborhood as change as we look at newly shot photos of:
  • rebuilt or new apartment buildings
  • greener streets with sidewalk trees and thriving community gardens
  • NYU dorms and campus buildings, and the students that fill them
  • blocks still filled with an impressive array of cuisines, like Veselka’s beloved Ukrainian dishes to Ethiopian, Korean, or Punjabi fare
• Despite the vast changes, the neighborhood was, and is, a vibrant, eccentric, multi-cultural nexus for artistic and counter-culture endeavors!

About this Virtual Talk:

Join photographer Daniel Root (New York Bars at Dawn) for a closer look at one of New York City’s most creative and eclectic neighborhoods, the East Village, as he shares images from his new photo book, The East Village Then & Now.

About Daniel Root:

Daniel Root is a fine art photographer and a principal in the visual arts firm The Root Group. His popular predawn photographs of Manhattan water holes were collected in the book New York Bars at Dawn (Abbeville). You can find his daily photos, a practice he’s now maintained for a decade, on Instagram at @danielrootphotography. Root has lived in the East Village since the early 1980s.

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