Afterimage, November 1st, 1996
Photographer Margaret Morton has spent roughly the last seven years documenting communities and shelters built by homeless men and women in New York City and their (invariably losing) battles to retain control of them. She has photographed the shanties erected by residents of Tompkins Square Park, which were torn down by the city in 1989, as well as a cluster of structures built on a vacant lot on the Lower East Side. Dubbed "Bushville" by the residents, the houses were razed by city sanitation bulldozers in December of 1993. (Those photographs were published as a book, Transitory Gardens, U...
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