Christine Osinski's Staten Island Photographs

This slideshow is part of: Christine Osinski Receives Inaugural Pollock-Krasner Photography Grant

During the mid-1980s Christine Osinski walked around Staten Island, taking pictures. That project will finally be turned into a book thanks to a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Here are a few samples of the work. See more at time.com.

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  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

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