New York Changing, Photographing Time: Douglas Levere at TEDxUniversityatBuffalo

Douglas has been capturing life images in all its individuality and eccentricity for over two decades. From the kings of Wall Street to theatrical drag queens, and many faculty and students in-between. Levere will talk about his book project New York Changing: Revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York published in 2004. This work involved capturing the changing landscape of New York City in generations, reveling details, contrasting Berenice Abbott's images from the 1930's to identical views 60 years later. When these works are seen side by side, they reveal much about the city and the nature of urban transformation. Perhaps more than anything else, this work powerfully suggests that in New York, the only constant is change. Levere has a B.A. in Design Studies '89 from University at Buffalo. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)