MY mother loves Miami. Her friend – he’s 83 – drives a Honda Goldwing. His girlfriend wears leather trousers – green ones. They enjoy life. Gay Block loves it , too. She produced a series of photographs of old Jews who live in South Miami Beach. The images are in her book, About Love. She notes:
“When I saw Miami’s South Beach for the first time, in 1982, I was awed by the beauty of the small Deco hotels, but I was even more fascinated by the old people sitting on the porches. The first night, when I stopped at one of those porches, it was love at first sight. I knew right away that I would return again and again to talk with and photograph these people. There were the bubbes and zaydes (grandmothers and grandfathers) I had longed for. I was drawn to return again and again over the next four years, until gentrification changed South Beach forever and it became a place for the young and hip.”
Before the photos, a joke:
Ok. Another one:
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