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As a lifelong citizen of Newark, I spent much of the past few years painting and photographing my changing city. Pictures features a selection of my work, complemented by classical music. Five of Modest Mussorgsky’s pieces from his composition Pictures at an Exhibition are selected, each of which represents the feel of a certain part of Newark. The following five locations are featured:
1. THE PASSAIC RIVER – music: Mussorgsky’s Promenade
2. OLD ESSEX COUNTY JAIL – music: With the Dead in the Language of Death
3. MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY – music: Promenade
4. DOWNTOWN NEWARK – music: Mozart’s Death March (k 453a)
5. PORT NEWARK – music: Promenade
Growing up in Newark, I am inspired and saddened by the inner city. I am inspired by Newark’s hope of renewal after decades of white flight, under-investment, and urban neglect. I am saddened by the loss of my city’s historic architecture and urban fabric to the wrecking ball of what is called progress.
Curious about the history of the old Essex County Jail? Explore this interactive exhibit.
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Featured work from this film
The Chimney Falls – 2008
Newark Broad Street Station
Rusting barge
Pulaski Skyway
Symmetrical bridges cross the Passic River
Big tires, bigger nation
Port Newark
City in autumn
Industrial zone in the New Jersey Meadowlands
Old drawbridge at Port Newark
After hours in Port Newark
Waiting for demolition at the “Little Annie Drawbridge”
Sunset on the Passaic River
Waiting for demolition at the “Little Annie Bridge”
Gulf Station
Corbin Stret
This way to freedom
Essex County Jail
A sense of scale
Essex County Jail
Downtown Newark
Roman Ruins
Craneway Street
