Weird NJ Presents FORSAKEN: Abandoned in and Around New Jersey

by Rusty Tagliareni, Mark Moran (Editor), Mark Sceurman (Editor)

Overview

We here at Weird NJ are proud to announce a joint project between ourselves and photographer Rusty Tagliareni: A 142 page full color, digital edition of our book FORSAKEN: Abandoned in and Around New Jersey, devoted to forgotten sites throughout the Garden State and beyond. This new ePub contains lots of additional exclusive photos not featured in the print version of FORSAKEN.
Weird NJ presents FORSAKEN: Abandoned In And Around New Jersey

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016361321
Publisher:	Weird NJ
Publication date:	03/21/2013
Series:	Weird NJ , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	242
File size:	19 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

From photographer Rusty Tagliareni:
“My interest in the abandoned dates back to my high-school days in the darkroom. Bathed in the red light and splashed with various chemicals, I spent much time in that small developing room discovering what a photograph actually was. It was fascinating to me how an outwardly simple image upon a piece of paper could evoke such a range of emotions. My first outings to abandoned locations were ones of pure aesthetic reasons, I found that there were things in these places that I saw mimicked nowhere else. The way light creeps and slithers into dark corners, the abstract patterns found in the flakes of peeling paint, and the surreal imagery of nature once again reclaiming a place it had lost long ago. After spending some time with these places, I began to realize there was much more contained within these rotten walls than simply "a good picture". There were stories here, ones of lives that had come and gone, events seen nowhere else.
“Things of great importance, be them on a grand or personal level, it does not matter. This connection that I saw between the past and the present, a hushed tale spoken through rot and filth-covered floors, was one that I kept an earnest interest in from those days forth. When time permitted (and sometimes even when it didn't), I continued to pursue these endeavors with the documenting, researching, and sharing of abandoned places. What drove my in these efforts is still something I have trouble communicating in words, spoken or otherwise. Best I can describe it is the somber feeling of something slipping slowly through your fingers, here for a brief but beautiful interlude, then gone forever to the annals of history.
The purpose of my work is simply to enlighten. My hope though, is that through this comes a better respect for these places and for those who document them.”