They both close Saturday, so get on over there. Yancey Richardson is on 22nd Street in Chelsea.
Mitch Epstein's show, titled Family Business, documents the collapse of his father's furniture and real estate business in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It also becomes a document of the collapse of small businesses and old city downtowns. A number of the images would be moving without the background story, but they're devastating as soon as you know it.
Flag, 2000, 30 × 40 inches, Chromogenic Print
Warehouse, 2000, 50 × 60 inches, Chromogenic Print
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Appropriately, the other show is Oraien Catledge's Cabbagetown, with images from his book of the same name. Catledge photgraphed the people of Cabbagetown, a small, impoverished milltown not far from downtown Atlanta. The images are from the 80s, but look like WPA photographs of sharecroppers during the Depression.
[images from the gallery's web site]
