A01=Ray Mortenson
Author_Ray Mortenson
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Middle Class
Photography
South Bronx
Urban Landscape
Product details
- ISBN 9781805980056
- Dimensions: 194 x 260mm
- Publication Date: 22 Dec 2025
- Publisher: GOST Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the mid-1970s, an economic down turn combined with complex social and political pressures caused the gradual decline of the South Bronx. By the 1980s, crime, middle-class exodus, fires, and the lack of public services had taken their toll—little was left standing. The photographs Ray Mortenson took during this time were intended to present an objective, wide-ranging survey of the devastated urban landscape.
Ray Mortenson (b. 1944) is a New York City–based landscape photographer who studied art and sculpture at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and San Francisco Art Institute in the1960s. Compelled by the natural disarray of ignored places, he has been exploring industrialzones, neglected urban neighborhoods, and isolated natural areas along the metropolitan corridor of the northeastern United States for nearly fifty years.
His profiles of places are made using a variety of camera formats and photographic processes. Darkroom prints range in size from intimate contacts to mural sized multi-paneled pieces. Over the past four decades he has also produced a series of unique or small editioned artist books. Mortenson’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the US since the 1980s and is held in the permanent collections of more than forty museums in the US, Canada, France, and Japan.
His profiles of places are made using a variety of camera formats and photographic processes. Darkroom prints range in size from intimate contacts to mural sized multi-paneled pieces. Over the past four decades he has also produced a series of unique or small editioned artist books. Mortenson’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the US since the 1980s and is held in the permanent collections of more than forty museums in the US, Canada, France, and Japan.
