Tunnel People
by Teun Voeten
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Following the homeless Manhattanites who, in the mid-1990s, chose to start a new life in the tunnel systems of the city, this record tells the stories of a variety of tunnel dwellers from the perspective of an award-winning, European photojournalist who lived and worked with them for 5 months. Photographs and personal accounts detail the struggles and pleasures?including the government's eviction of the tunnel people and Amtrak's offering them alternative housing?of Vietnam veterans, show more macrobiotic hippies, crack addicts, Cuban refugees, convicted killers, computer programmers, philosophical recluses, and criminal runaways. Humorous and compassionate, it also describes what has happened to these individuals 13 years since they've left. show lessTags
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Teun Voeten studied cultural anthropology in the Netherlands and then started to cover the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Rwanda, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Haiti, and Colombia. His work has been published in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Granta and has been used by organizations such as the United show more Nations, the International Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and Human Rights Watch. He divides his time between New York and Brussels show less
Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Tunnelmensen
- Original publication date
- 1996
- Blurbers
- Junger, Sebastian; Singer, Marc; Isaac, Bernard Monte
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Anthropology, Art & Design, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 779.93055692097471 — Arts & recreation Photography Photographic images Other subjects Social Sciences
- LCC
- F128.55 .V6413 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history New York
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 64
- Popularity
- 484,119
- Rating
- (3.67)
- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 1
