Description:
The Borscht Belt, which features essays by Stefan Kanfer and Jenna Weissman Joselit, presents Marisa Scheinfeld's photographs of abandoned sites where resorts, hotels, and bungalow colonies once boomed in the Catskill Mountain region of upstate New York.
Brief description: Marisa Scheinfeld's photography has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is among the collections of The Center for Jewish History, The National Yiddish Book Center, The Simon Wiesenthal Center, and The Edmund and Nancy K. Dubois Library at the Museum of Photographic Arts.
Review Quotes:
In New York's Catskill Mountains a party began in the twentieth century that lasted decades. Party pictures filled thousands of scrapbooks--but now the party's over and the guests are gone, never to return. Enter Marisa Scheinfeld, whose camera finds profound eloquence in the silence that remains and hope in new life emerging from the ruins. This story was already ancient when Shelley penned "Ozymandias" that all things grand eventually fall. But Scheinfeld's work is all the more moving because these things are ours now.
--Alan Weisman "Countdown and The World without Us"