{"product_id":"taxi-journey-through-my-windows-1977-1987-9781576879313","title":"Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977-1987","description":"New York City in the late '70s was a collection of villages with its downtown scene, midtown workers, and uptown elegance. It was also a city that was more integrated than ever before or ever would be again. All of the city's humanity met in its streets with layered soundtracks of salsa, rock, disco, reggae, and soon hip-hop booming for all to groove to. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But, NYC was also a place of chaos and mayhem. Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy with rampant crime it was the city's drug users, dealers, and pimps and prostitutes who ruled the streets of Manhattan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The grittiness of the city was a beacon and a promise to many outsiders, those who didn't quite fit into any mold, and a vibrant LGBTQ community became the nexus of an underworld of sex workers who liked to party. For a NYC cabbie such as Joseph Rodriguez, the hot spots to pick up fares were clubs like the Hellfire, Mineshaft, The Anvil, The Vault, and Show World. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Losing his first camera and lens in a classic '70s New York stabbing and mugging, Rodriguez's wounds healed and he armed himself with a new camera to document what he saw on the job: hookers getting off their shifts, transvestites and S\u0026amp;M partiers doin' it in the back seat or somehow pulling off an unlikely costume change from bondage gear to emerge from the cab clean-cut in an oxford and khakis ready to face unwitting family and friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A humanist at heart, his photographs speak of the dignity of the city's working class from all the boroughs and those struggling to get by. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Economic Hardship Reporting Project provided funding to support \u003ci\u003eTaxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977-1987\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Rodriguez was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He began studying photography at the School of Visual Arts and went on to receive an Associate of Applied Science degree at New York City Technical College. He worked in the graphic arts industry before deciding to pursue photography further. In 1985 he graduated with a Photojournalism and Documentary diploma from the International Center of Photography in New York. He went on to work for Black Star photo agency, and print and online news organizations like \u003ci\u003eEsquire, The Guardian, Mother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew America Media\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStern\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received awards and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists' Fellowship, USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism, the Open Society Institute Justice Media Fellowship and Katrina Media Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography, and the Alicia Patterson Fellowship Fund for Investigative Journalism. He has been awarded Pictures of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association and the University of Missouri, in 1990, 1992, 1996 and 2002. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSpanish Harlem\u003c\/i\u003e, part of the \"American Scene\" series, published by the National Museum of American Art\/ D.A.P., as well as\u003ci\u003e East Side Stories: Gang Life in East Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJuvenile\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Flesh Life Sex in Mexico City\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStill Here: Stories After Katrina\u003c\/i\u003e, published by powerHouse Books. Recent exhibitions include Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne, Germany; Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography, University of La Verne, California; Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK Institute for Public Knowledge, New York, NY; Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, New York, NY; and Cultural Memory Matters, 601 Art Space, New York, NY.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"powerHouse Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50420413858066,"sku":"9781576879313","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3347068a-381f-4867-a95a-e668d0580546.jpg?v=1729494293","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/taxi-journey-through-my-windows-1977-1987-9781576879313","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}