In a world where people feel compelled to turn every talent, hobby, thought, friendship and interesting personality trait into an income stream, please protect some of the things that make you feel whole. Do not surrender your entire being to the rubric of capitalism.
Starting in 1990, Gerald Cyrus, then a 33-year-old M.F.A. student at the School of Visual Arts, began consistently documenting New York City. This month, TBW Books will publish a long-awaited collection of his images from that decade, “Uptown Odyssey.” The book gathers the photographs he took of the vibrant street corners of Harlem and captures Black cultural life from the perspective of a patient, collaborative observer. See the photos: https://t.co/h0w4MEKfIR