CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/28/2021

'Marie Tomanova: New York New York' is NEW from Hatje Cantz

Featured photograph, titled “Makenna and Doe (Tompkins Square Park)" (2020), is reproduced from Marie Tomanova: New York New York, launching in New York with a book signing Wednesday, September 29, from 5–7 PM at Dashwood Books. In her Foreword, Kim Gordon writes, “The portraits in Marie’s book are … a picture of the promise of freedom. That’s what I felt when I first moved there in 1980. You take what you want from the city, people leave you alone. The diversity of the people in this book is a mirror of that thirst for freedom. Despite the shopping mall aspect of lower Manhattan, it still feels like a safe haven from ‘AMERICA.’ Your friends become your family, the family extension is a community that you give back to because you live there; you’re not a distant investor buying a condo you’ll never live in. Marie’s book is a celebration of that young community.”