Higher Ground
1999 D.A.P.
Introduction by Ian Frazier.
1999 D.A.P.Introduction by Ian Frazier.
Thomas Roma's Higher Ground consists of intimate portraits of the passengers on Brooklyn's elevated trains, passengers variously lost in reverie, locked in fantasies, suspended animatedly between destinations. These brilliant photographs, captureing the dialectic between desire and disappointment, anxiety and comfort, ultimately remind us of our own continuous rites of passage as human beings. Roma's photographs are truly saving graces. Higher Ground embodies the quality of Roma's genius and the depth of his soul.
——Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University
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