In "Sanctuary", photographer Thomas Roma offers a compelling sequence of 52 black-and-white images that document the varieties of religious experience in Brooklyn as seen in the borough's sacred architecture. Juxtaposing pictures of grand Gothic and Romanesque churches photographed at a distance from backyards and alleys with more intimate views of smaller places of worship housed in converted storefronts and dilapidated brownstones, Roma subtly calls attention to issues of history and class, revealing how successive waves of immigrants have shaped Brooklyn's urbanscape and how the African-American and Hispanic communities living there now have worked to make these neighbourhoods, culturally and spiritually, their own.
- ISBN10 0801869552
- ISBN13 9780801869556
- Publish Date 19 June 2002
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 31 May 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English