http://www.zeit.de/online/2009/17/bg-storefronts?1
” House-made sausage since 1938″ New York becomes more modern and more expensive. If the quarter changes, small family business cannot keep up often any longer. James and Karla Murray photographed the most beautiful infinitesimal shop fronts Small shops for iron or baking goods, shoe repairs or domestic animal need coin/shape our quarter, our quarter, our village. That is not in the Megapolis New York different than in a German town. The fronts of the small business operated by families often since generations coin/shape the face of a quarter, often without we become conscious their. The familiar sight - peeling color, handpainted special offer posters - stands for the fact that Zuhausesein is sometimes simply only called to know, where there is the freshest fish. Always gave. But New York wants to become more schicker everywhere - and becomes more expensive thereby. Many shops must make, because the house, in which the shop bar is located, is sold or torn off. Because the customers are missing. Or because none is, which the business would drive on wants. And even if the shop remains, many owners see themselves compelling to buck up and look more modern let it - as the whole quarter became more modern. In all five districts of New York James and Karla Murray the fronts of small shops, which created it in the new millenium, with the camera held town center. High time - nearly a third of the shops, which photographed it, already disappeared. We show a selection of the photographs from the book net curtain front, The Disappearing Face OF New York.
