Clayton Patterson: The Lower East Side, September 10 - October 27, 2007 by Patterson, Clayton; Al Orensanz - 2007

New York: Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, 2007. Pamphlet. First edition. Fine pamphlet. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The catalogue/illustrated gallery announcement for an exhibition of portraits of people on the streets of the Lower East Side of Manhattan by Clayton Patterson, held at the Kinz, Tillou + Feigen gallery, NYC, September 10 - October 27, 2007. Patterson lived on the Lower East Side since the early 1980's, and is widely known for documenting the historic and fast changing neighborhood. Over the years, he "amassed a huge day-by-day visual history of the area, told mainly through unpretentious portraits of its myriad and diverse faces: tenement kids and homeless people, poets and politicians, drug dealers and drag queens, rabbis and santeros, beat cops, graffiti taggers, hookers, junkies, punks, anarchists, mystics and crackpots." Photographs by Clayton Patterson; essay by Al Orensanz. Spiral-fold, card stock; 8 panels; 5 color illustrations + a portrait of the artist; 4.75 x 6 inches.