‘Malls Across America’, Michael Galinsky
Photographer and filmmaker Michael Galinsky was 20 years old in 1989 when he and a friend decided to spend six weeks driving across the country, capturing images of mall life. They started in New York and ended in North Carolina.
“At the time, the mall was the new public space, the new community center where people would interact,” Galinsky told TODAY.com. He had no idea what those pictures would mean two decades later. “This was pre-Internet, pre-cellphone, there was smoking in malls, it was before the Gulf War. It was this weird moment in time where things were getting ready to change,” he said. “Sometimes when you’re taking pictures, you don’t know what is or is not going to be there 20 years later.”
I can feel a road trip/project coming on Oliver!
Dear Michael,
Wonderful collection you made there back in the eighties! I myself was born in ’84. Ofcourse I grew up in the ’90ies, but I find a lot of similarities in the way people dress themselves. Very intriguing.
Anyway, keep up the good work
Thomas
(Netherlands)
Micheal, I too enjoyed seeing your picyures of the mall. Most importantly it is a time piece that I think is slowly changing and how wonderful for you too have captured that. I also see theirs a story in each of their faces, you captured it all.
thanks
Pam Blackwell