This combination of two found images is notable in how it creates a stark contrast between the deliberate targeting of SROs and a romanticized form of historical revisionism promoted by Columbia University on their website. Its double exposure aesthetic is slightly disorienting, which can be productive in how it makes the viewer reflect on how the ongoing toxicity of forced removal via notions of blight is or isn’t visible.
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