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The Clayton Patterson Show w/ Efrain Gonzalez
11.12.18
Clayton is joined by NY street photographer and documentarian, Efrain Gonzalez. Gonzalez, like Clayton, has taken thousands of photographs documenting Lower Manhattan in the 70s,80s,90s and on. While Patterson's area of work was primarily the Lower East Side -- Gonzalez has a massive photo archive of the West Side of Lower Manhattan, known as the Meatpacking District. While both neighborhoods have changed drastically over the past 40 years, the Meatpacking district has perhaps changed more than any other neighborhood. Gonzalez and Patterson discuss the underground tattoo and piercing world of New York City, inspirations in their work as photographers, and much more.
Check Efrain's work out on www.hellfirepress.com
Text from Gothamist article on Gonzalez:
http://gothamist.com/2014/03/24/photos_efrain_gonzalez_chronicled_n.php#photo-1
The whole area of the West Side Highway between Christopher St. and 14th St. was the sex workers' domain; they would work there at night...If you drove your car up the West Side Highway, they would be walking up the street, flashing parts of their bodies.
New York City photographer Efrain John Gonzalez says he's "not a professional photographer, just OCD." He describes his work as telling "a story of people finding the path to their souls, finding their bliss with piercings, branding, cuttings, tattoos, latex, implants, leather, and a whole lot of radical sex and sexuality." Throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, while working various jobs (including driving a cab), Gonzalez took thousands of photographs of New York's seedier nightlife, at bars, restaurants, and sex clubs in the Meatpacking District and the West Village.
"These were abandoned areas," he told us, "There was nothing there. You could photograph it and make interesting pictures. All the places and people and organizations that I used to photograph are all gone, so what I'm trying to do now is find some way to use, and make public, these images." Gothamist is proud to publish a small selection of Gonzalez' photographs, alongside his reminiscences of what he photographed.
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11.12.18
Clayton is joined by NY street photographer and documentarian, Efrain Gonzalez. Gonzalez, like Clayton, has taken thousands of photographs documenting Lower Manhattan in the 70s,80s,90s and on. While Patterson's area of work was primarily the Lower East Side -- Gonzalez has a massive photo archive of the West Side of Lower Manhattan, known as the Meatpacking District. While both neighborhoods have changed drastically over the past 40 years, the Meatpacking district has perhaps changed more than any other neighborhood. Gonzalez and Patterson discuss the underground tattoo and piercing world of New York City, inspirations in their work as photographers, and much more.
Check Efrain's work out on www.hellfirepress.com
Text from Gothamist article on Gonzalez:
http://gothamist.com/2014/03/24/photos_efrain_gonzalez_chronicled_n.php#photo-1
The whole area of the West Side Highway between Christopher St. and 14th St. was the sex workers' domain; they would work there at night...If you drove your car up the West Side Highway, they would be walking up the street, flashing parts of their bodies.
New York City photographer Efrain John Gonzalez says he's "not a professional photographer, just OCD." He describes his work as telling "a story of people finding the path to their souls, finding their bliss with piercings, branding, cuttings, tattoos, latex, implants, leather, and a whole lot of radical sex and sexuality." Throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, while working various jobs (including driving a cab), Gonzalez took thousands of photographs of New York's seedier nightlife, at bars, restaurants, and sex clubs in the Meatpacking District and the West Village.
"These were abandoned areas," he told us, "There was nothing there. You could photograph it and make interesting pictures. All the places and people and organizations that I used to photograph are all gone, so what I'm trying to do now is find some way to use, and make public, these images." Gothamist is proud to publish a small selection of Gonzalez' photographs, alongside his reminiscences of what he photographed.