Carole Teller

Photos from ‘Changing New York’
Village Preservation

A unique collection of photographs by artist Carole Teller, an East Village resident since the 1960’s.

Carole Teller is an artist who has lived in the East Village since the early 1960’s. As a photographer, she had a keen and often prescient eye, capturing in her daily travels people and places that struck her, but which were also often on the precipice of change or disappearing. In some cases these were buildings in the process of being demolished, like Penn Station or tenements being cleared for urban renewal. In other cases they were fading painted signs growing fainter by the day. But often these were people, businesses, street scenes, or layers of grit or decay which were integral parts of her New York, but which were frequently on the edge of transformation, revival, or removal. – Village Preservation