New York Masjid/Mosques of New York.
Photographs by Edward Grazda. Text by Jerrilynn D. Dodds.
NEW YORK MASJID/
MOSQUES OF NEW YORK
Photographs by Edward Grazda
Text by Jerrilynn D. Dodds
Hardcover, 10.75 x 10 inches, 104 pages, 110 duotone
photographs
NEW YORK MASJID/MOSQUES OF NEW YORK took root on
February 26, 1993 in the midst of an urban crisis: the
World Trade Center bombing. But ultimately more destructive to the city at that time were the tidal waves of toxic and
reductive one-line headlines that followed in the written and
televised media: "Muslim Terrorist," leaving a kind of easy,
familiar code name for terror.
To counteract this stereotype, scholar Jerrilynn D. Dodds
joined forces with photographer Edward Grazda to document
the Islamic presence in New York by focusing on the places
Muslims congregate to worship their god-the Mosque.
NEW YORK MASJID/MOSQUES OF NEW YORK is an insightful and
unbiased account of a much-maligned and rapidly growing
culture around the world, taken in perhaps the one place in
the world where all manifestations of religious adherents
live and work: New York City. The book features photographs,
essays, and interviews documenting the mosques that
each of New York's Muslim communities has built at its
center, revealing the ways these buildings reflect and
create identities for Muslims within a dense and diverse
urban fabric.
... Mr. Grazda's penetrating black-and-white photographs
and Ms. Dodd's insightful commentaries reveal the range
of the city's Islamic houses of worship and their ethnic
congregations... "
-The New York Times
An exhibition of a related subject, Arab Americans in New
York, will open at The Museum of the City of New York in
the late spring.
Born in New York City, Edward Grazda studied photography
at the Rhode Island School of Design. In the '70s, he
photographed Latin America, and in the '80s he concentrated
on Asia. In addition to teaching at Harvard, Grazda has
lectured at Yale and Bennington. Grazda's photographs are
in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The New York Public
Library, all in New York City, as well as The Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and The San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art. He was awarded grants by the
National Endowment for the Arts in 1980 and 1986.
Author of AFGHANISTAN DIARY: 1992-2000 (powerHouse
Books, 2000) and AFGHANISTAN: 1980-1989 (Der Alltag,
1990), Grazda lives in New York City.
Jerrilynn D. Dodds is Professor of Architecture and Theory
at the School of Architecture of The City College of New
York at CONY. Her work centers primarily on issues of
artistic interchange and identity, and the problems
surrounding architecture and minorities in pluralistic
societies. She is the author of ARCHITECTURE AND IDEOLOGY OF
EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN (London and University Park, 1991);
AL ANDALUS: THE ARTS OF ISLAMIC SPAIN (The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 1992); and numerous other publications
on the subject of Islam and cultural exchange as it is seen
through architecture. A filmmaker as well as author,
Professor Dodds has been writing and filming works
concerning the dilemma of Muslims in contemporary
society ("NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York," and "Stari
Most: The Bridge at Mostar [Bosnia]"). Among the other
institutions at which Professor Dodds has taught are
Harvard University and Columbia University.
"New York Masjid / Mosques of New York is an insightful and unbiased account of a much-maligned and rapidly growing culture around the world, taken in perhaps the one place in the world where all manifestations of religious adherents live and work: New York City. The book features photographs, essays, and interviews documenting the mosques that each of New York's Muslim communities has built at its center, revealing the ways these buildings reflect and create identities for Muslims within a dense and diverse urban fabric."-the publisher.
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