Brenda Ann Kenneally

Money Power Respect: Pictures of My Neighborhood
Publisher's Description
Since 1996, photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally has documented
the families in her Brooklyn neighborhood, quietly witnessing their
struggle with poverty, social institutions, and the illicit drug trade.
Having inspired the likes of Eugene Richards and Thomas Roma,
Brooklyn proves an inexhaustible muse, and Kenneally comes to
the familiar ground with a fresh perspective. Her poignant, psychological
photographs span generations, tracing the same people
she sees everyday on her street. With her camera, Kenneally narrates
their tale of both hope and despair as she explores how her
subjects empower themselves in a lost culture of drugs and prison.
Money, Power, Respect: Pictures of My Neighborhood chronicles
pregnancies and births, institutions and streets, drugs and rehab,
showing the community of inner-city families at once full of life
and also institutionalized by the welfare system. Through it all,
Kenneally evokes their dreams for a better life, tempered with the
awareness that they may be caught in the cyclic lifestyle of limited
opportunities. The photographs are in the best sense fully present,
alive to what is, rather than searching for what is not. Her images
draw us to hope for their survival and compel us to experience the
depths and complexities of family life in the American social and
justice systems. Money, Power, Respect details a crucial historical
moment in our nation’s nearly total abandonment of the poor.
This book makes it impossible to turn away from the yearning
towards life, to detach the economics of the situation from the
machinery of the heart.
ISBN: 0976670852
Publisher: Channel Photographics
Hardcover : 100 pages
Language: English
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Publisher: Channel Photographics
Hardcover : 100 pages
Language: English