The Makeshift City

(Hardback)

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The city of Atlanta in the US has endured constant change throughout its history. It has been
destroyed and rebuilt several times over, survived slavery and racial segregation
to become the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement, and recently recast the
state of Georgia as a blue wave in a sea of neighbouring red states. The
Makeshift City by Joshua Dudley Greer shows a contemporary Atlanta in a
state of flux--both a unique city with a specific history and culture, and a
generic American metropolis struggling to forge its identity.

Author Bio

Joshua Dudley Greer (b. 1980 Hazleton, PA) is a photographer based in Atlanta, GA where he teaches at Georgia State University. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The California Sunday Magazine, The Atlantic, PDN, Le Monde, The Georgia Review, GUP Magazine and Oxford American. He has received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, Tennessee Arts Commission and the Aaron Siskind Foundation. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Harvard Art Museums, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the New York Public Library, the Do Good Fund and the High Museum of Art.