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We try to maintain a global perspective at the\xa0B&H Photography Podcast\xa0and speak with photographers from around the world, but we are New Yorkers at heart and it\u2019s hard to deny the love we have for our city and its history. With that in mind, we are pleased to welcome photographers\xa0Anders Goldfarb\xa0and\xa0Larry Racioppo\xa0to the show\u2015two photographers, both born in Brooklyn, who have taken the face of our ever-changing city as their subject.

Each photographer has extensive archives of New York neighborhoods, landmarks, and communities, and both have recently published new books of their work. Goldfarb\u2019s book,\xa0Passed Remains, is a look at the Greenpoint and Williamsburg neighborhoods prior to the gentrification of the 2000s and Racioppo\u2019s latest book is titled\xa0Coney Island Baby, which chronicles the changes to that storied locale from the 1970s to the present.

We learn of Goldfarb\u2019s process of bicycling through the quiet corners and industrial cityscapes of his then-neighborhood and photographing with a\xa0Rolleiflex\xa0twin lens reflex camera. He describes his work as both a \u201csurvey and a statement.\u201d With Racioppo, we learn of the many visits he made to Coney Island over the years to photograph\u2015covering the demise and demolition of the 1970s through its reincarnation in the 1990s. He also discusses working as a photographer for the New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development and provides a glimpse at the life of a working artist in Brooklyn in the 1970s and \u201980s. Our wide-ranging conversation includes the challenges of the square format,\xa0Nikon\xa0rangefinders, texture in a photograph, self-publishing, and the delight of mystery.

Guests: Anders Goldfarb and Larry Racioppo

Photograph \xa9 Larry Racioppo

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