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Madison Square Park Conservancy, event application for “The City and the Environment in Transition,” a photography project
WHEREAS, The Madison Square Park Conservancy has applied for a special event permit to host a photography exhibition as part of a major national photography project that includes:
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Ecotopia, the 2006 Triennial of photography and video at the International Center of Photography, and
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Related outdoor photo exhibitions in New York, Hartford and Boston; and
WHEREAS, For the Madison Square Park aspect of the exhibition three prominent photographers will create five new images each on the theme "The City and the Environment in Transition"; and
WHEREAS, These photographers are Chuck Close, Dayanita Singh and Mitch Epstein; and
WHEREAS, The exhibition will recreate a museum experience in the outdoors with the display of the fifteen photo images facing outwards from the park on the perimeter of the park and, thereby, visible to pedestrians on the sidewalks around Madison Square Park with three additional panels to interpret the project for the public; and
WHEREAS, The exhibition will be held for a period of seven weeks from September 20, 2006 through November 10, 2006; and
WHEREAS, There will be no admission charged for the exhibition; therefore be it
RESOLVED, Community Board Five recommends approval of a special event permit for the Madison Square Park Conservancy to host a photography exhibition on the theme "The City and the Environment in Transition" from September 20, 2006 through November 10, 2006 facing outwards to the sidewalk around the perimeter of Madison Square Park.
The above resolution passed with a vote of 31 in favor, 0 opposed, 1 abstention.