MARGARET MORTON – A RETROSPECTIVE
2015-07-27Margaret Morton has been engaged with the photographic representation of alternative-built environments and the individuals who construct them for more than twenty-five years. Her four previous books form a permanent record of the temporary habitats that Manhattan’s homeless individuals created for themselves in public parks, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, along the waterfronts and beneath the city’s streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer/Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Press). Morton’s most recent book, Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan (University of Washington Press), reveals the otherworldly grandeur of architecturally unique and dramatically sited monuments, which she photographed on several visits to the region.
Exhibition runs through to August 15th, 2015
Leica Gallery New York
670 Broadway / Suite 500
New York
NY 10012
