Arts > Photo > USA > Mel Rosenthal   1940-2017

Mother and daughter,

who were among the last residents

of that section of East 173rd Street.

1976-82.

Photograph: Mel Rosenthal

Museum of the City of New York

Mel Rosenthal’s South Bronx Activism and Engagement

The New York Times

May. 25, 2016

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/mel-rosenthals-south-bronx-activism-and-engagement/

Kids fencing. Bathgate Avenue and 174th Street. 1976-82.

Photograph: Mel Rosenthal

Museum of the City of New York

Mel Rosenthal’s South Bronx Activism and Engagement

NYT

May 25, 2016

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/mel-rosenthals-south-bronx-activism-and-engagement/

Mel Rosenthal    1940-2017

For Mel Rosenthal,

there’s no point in taking a picture

if it isn’t going to do

some good in this world.

Photographs, he said, have to connect

with the community where they’re made,

not just to be exhibited there

but to engage residents in discussions.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/
mel-rosenthals-south-bronx-activism-and-engagement/

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/
mel-rosenthal-seeking-justice-with-a-camera/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/
obituaries/mel-rosenthal-photographer-who-captured-the-bronx-dies-at-77.html

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2016/jun/29/
south-bronx-america-photographs-mel-rosenthal

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/
mel-rosenthals-south-bronx-activism-and-engagement/

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/
a-mentors-passion-for-pictures-and-social-justice/

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/
a-passion-for-pictures-and-for-social-justice/

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