Atlantic City, Forlorn
Atlantic City: Excess and Decline
| By Tracy Metz
In this fourth and final blog of this series, John Adams director Tracy Metz selected photographs from Brian Rose’s book ‘Atlantic City’ showing Atlantic City as a symbol of excess and decline. “Atlantic City is a dramatic symbol […]
January 16, 2020
Trump’s failed Kingdom
| By Tracy Metz
For the third blog of this series, John Adams director Tracy Metz selected several photographs from Brian Rose’s book ‘Atlantic City’ showing the remnants of Donald Trump’s failed Atlantic City kingdom. “The shuttered Trump Plaza will likely be torn […]
January 13, 2020
Can Trump make Atlantic City great again?
| By Tracy Metz
For the second blog of this series, John Adams director Tracy Metz selected photographs from Brian Rose’s book ‘Atlantic City’ showing the effect Donald Trump had on the city. “As for Michael MacLeod, the sculptor of the elephants […]
January 9, 2020
Taj Mahal in Atlantic City
| By Tracy Metz
Atlantic City, on the coast of New Jersey, was born in the mid-nineteenth century and grew so big, so fast, that it captured the American imagination. It was ‘the World’s Playground’. Its hotels were the largest and finest, its […]
January 6, 2020