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Each vivid photo captures a very real element of life on one urban street. An extensive selection from this exhibit and the accompanying essays and commentary by area residents and experts on photography, public art, community, urban studies, and other pertinent disciplines shed light on the dizzying mixture of socioeconomic, ethnic, and cultural realities that embody the twelve neighborhoods connected by Lake Street, a microcosm of America's changing social landscape."Most of us have been taught very well how to imagine crime, poverty and racial tension as the whole of the inner-city experience. Huie knows this; he shrewdly embraces such urban realities, hoping to take us beyond our well-taught imaginations and show us one grand sphere of humanity."-"Colors" magazine "Must be a Nike thing."-a teenager speculating on the Lake Street, U.S.A. images in a grocery store window Marketing plans Signed poster promotion to bookstoresNational author tour, including stops in New York, Connecticut, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Minneapolis/ St. Paul, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Palo Alto, Bellingham, Vancouver A nationally recognized artist, Wing Young Huie's first critical success was his Frogtown project ("Frogtown: Photographs and Conversations in an urban Neighborhood"). In 1999 Huie was featured in two major Walker Art exhibitions, and his work has been displayed in exhibits across the country, including New York, Florida, Connecticut, and Chicago. Huie is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bush Artist Fellowship, the McKnight Photography Fellowship, and the Forecast Exhibition Grant. He is a native of Minnesota.
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In 2000, photographer Wing Young Huie displayed hundreds of photo-portraits along a six-mile stretch of Minneapolis's Lake Street, a major artery connecting neighborhoods with vastly different ethnicities, cultures, religions and tastes. In the book based on the exhibit, Lake Street USA, a Pentecostal Hmong minister appears under the same cover as a punk rocker with a black eye; a Cameroonian record shop owner; an Egyptian former teacher who now washes dishes at the Hyatt; a predominantly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Christian congregation; and a hippie on a nature walk with his kids in the back alleys of the city. Statements from many of the photographs' subjects flesh out this portrait of urban American life. It's hard to imagine a more public art. ( Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Photographer Huie was his immigrant parents' youngest child and their first born in America. He recalls feeling conspicuous most of his life, but now, with the epic project recorded in this book behind him, he says he feels like one of the crowd on ethnically diverse Lake Street in Minneapolis. During the '90s, the long east-west thoroughfare saw a variety of Asians and Hispanics join blacks, Indians, Orthodox Jews, and lower-income whites in the neighborhoods north and south of Lake's predominantly commercial strip. Every page here carries from one to five images reflecting that variety; altogether, the photos constitute a selection from the 675 pictures that Huie persuaded some 150 businesses along a six-mile stretch of Lake to display, hugely enlarged, in windows and on exterior walls. Beside many photos, brief statements by the persons who appear in them illuminate the profusion of lifestyles Lake Street denizens lead, from homelessness to suburban teens habitually hanging out in the street's busiest commercial area. Such diversity is bodied forth that 675 pictures seem too few to capture it. --Ray Olson
Library Journal Review
The inner-city neighborhoods of Minneapolis are all connected by one major vein, Lake Street. In 2000, photographer Huie used this stretch of pocked pavement and diverse communities as both a subject and a frame for a massive documentary project. For four years he photographed the people and cityscape of the street, not shying away from the poverty, the play, and the variety of human characters he found along the way. He then placed the photographs along a six-mile section of Lake Street in one of the largest public art projects the city has seen. This book reproduces 500 of the 675 black-and-white photographs Huie used in his show along with an interview with Huie by Louis Mazza of the Walker Art Center and short texts quoting some of the subjects. These are brave photographs of people moving through what look like difficult lives lived as well as can be, and Huie remains faithful to the diversity of the city and the reality of his subjects' lives. This collection would be better if it included images of how the photographs looked when posted in the streets (two images hint at the compelling results). Also, the odd layout is maddening; for unknown reasons, the publisher chose to print the book so that most of the text is read with the binding on top but with some images laid out in facing right/left pages. This design forces the reader to turn the book constantly in order to view the images the right way up, which distracts from both the quality and the content of the work. These issues aside, this record of this unique community is essential for regional collections, and it makes a good additional purchase for Americana collections in large libraries. Rebecca Miller, "Library Journal" (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
