Original Photograph by Martine Barrat
Black and white documentary photography of a woman from The South Bronx from 1986mmade by Martine Barrat. Original, the only copy signed by the author and in perfect condition, always framed. Martine BarratFrench photographer and videographer,in Paris during the 1960s, Martine Barrat moved to New York in 1968 after an invitation from the MaMa Experimental Theater Club found by Elle Stewart. There, she created a workshop for children in the Lower East Side combining theater, video and jazz. She progressively turned towards the image – video and 16mm film – which she would eventually entirely devote herself to. In the beginning of the 1970s, she began a video series about gang members from the South Bronx, a difficult neighbourhood in which she achieved eventual acceptance. From this important documentary project, which she worked on for several years, she created You Do the Crime, You Do the Time (1978), which won best documentary prize in Milan. Fascinated by the black neighbourhood where she also photographed the streets, boxing clubs and churches, she paid tribute to its dwellers – the elderly, musicians and children – with whom she spent much time over the course of several years. The retrospective Harlem in My Heart, presented at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris from 2007–2008 revealed the beauty of these poor and flamboyant heroesBrooklyn Museum[8]Bibliothèque Nationale de FranceLincoln Center LibraryMuseum of the City of New YorkMuseum of Modern Art, New York[9]Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureSmithsonian American Art Museum[10]Whitney Museum[11]Literature[edit]Barrat, Martine (1993). Do or die. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-84325-1.