Capital, Paperback

In Capital, Mark Hage reframes the story of gentrification, and in photographic portraits of shuttered retail spaces captures the hidden soul of the city. Exploring the accidental compositions that emerge in the built environment, he invites us to view an alternative to increasingly overmediated spaces in photographs of what is abandoned, altered, left behind, gutted. An elegy to a disappearing city becomes an emotional homage to the labors that built it.

About author(s):Mark Hage, long based in New York's SoHo neighborhood, has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Parsons on the narratives of structure from ancient times to the present. His work has appeared in literary magazine including NOON and A Public Space, where he is a contributing editor.