If you have followed Juxtapoz over the the past 6 or so years, you know we have an intimate love with Times Square. After all, it was the home of the Juxtapoz x Grotesk T.SQ Newsstand, our installation in Times Square over the course of 10 days in 2015. That is why we are so interested in the book from Steidl, Betsy Karel's America’s Stage: Times Square.
From the publisher: In America’s Stage: Times Square, street photographer Betsy Karel uses five New York City blocks as a metaphor for urban America today. Her premise is that many of the major trends of our society are present in Times Square: globalism, consumerism, ubiquitous sexualization, hucksterism, surveillance, narcissism. All are compressed and amplified here. In Karel’s photos fantasy parades as reality, corporate interests invade almost all public spaces, and Times Square becomes a vivid, almost hyper-realistic, form of theatre.
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