The majesty of Coney Island's Wonder Wheel at night. A fire hydrant let loose during a block party in Park Slope. The grandeur of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge engulfed in fog.
These images are part of a new book, 'Brooklyn Photographs Now,' that seeks to capture a borough - from its iconic landmarks to its row houses to its delis and pizzerias - that has been transforming over the past 15 years. Brooklyn has faced rapid gentrification, rising rents and prices, and changing demographics of neighborhoods.
The collection of photographs - many of which have not been published before - are by 64 new and established artists whose cityscapes and portraits tell the borough's changing story.
Franck Bohbot, a photographer who lives in Park Slope, started going to Coney Island five years ago. 'For me, the iconic place I wanted to showcase was southern Brooklyn – especially Coney Island because it has changed a lot,' he explained. Bohbot said it was a 'special night'when he took this photo of 'Wonder Wheel' in 2013
'I'm a photographer and I always have my camera with me,' Evan Sklar, who has lived in the Brooklyn since 1999, told DailyMail.com. 'It was a fun event.' His neighborhood, Park Slope, has a block party every year. He snapped this photo, 'Ava Playing in Open Fire Hydrant at Block Party,' in 2014
Light plays off the borough's rooftops and buildings in this shot by Dan Dealy, titled 'Hello Brooklyn' from 2009. Luxury developments have been sprouting up throughout the borough
Like the borough it looks to chronicle, the images span neighborhoods - from Coney Island to Park Slope to Red Hook to Williamsburg - as well as subject matter and composition.
Photographer Franck Bohbot, who lives in Park Slope, started going to Coney Island five years ago.
'For me, the iconic place I wanted to showcase was southern Brooklyn – especially Coney Island because it has changed a lot,' he explained.
Bohbot said the night he took a photo of 'Wonder Wheel' in 2013, it was a 'special night.'
'It doesn't feel like New York City. It doesn't feel like Brooklyn,' he told DailyMail.com. 'It's another world.'
Over in Park Slope, the annual block party provided an opportunity for Evan Sklar, who lives in the neighborhood. He snapped 'Ava Playing in Open Fire Hydrant at Block Party' in 2014.
'I'm a photographer. I always have my camera with me,' he told DailyMail.com. 'It was a fun event.'
Sklar, who has lived in borough since 1999, said the collection 'mirrors the changes happening Brooklyn,' including population shifts.
Fog seems to engulf part of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge in this 2007 image by Mark Seliger, who has photographed celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Emma Stone and Chris Pratt
It took two years and $95million to restore the Kings Theatre in Flatbush. It reopened its doors in early 2015. Photograph by Jean Michel Berts
A look at the underbelly of the Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn in a photograph by Todd Boebel
The city landmarked the Sears Roebuck & Co. in Flatbush in 2012. An image of the Art Deco building in 2007 by Todd Boebel
'Brooklyn Photographs Now,' that seeks to capture a borough - from its iconic landmarks to its delis and pizzerias - that has been transforming over the past 15 years
The book, written by Marla Hamburg Kennedy, is out on September 18. It 'documents the physical and architectural landscape and reflects and explores an off-centered - and therefore a less-seen and more innovative - perspective of how artists view this borough in the twenty-first century,' according to the website of Rizzoli, the book's publisher. It includes an image of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge by Mark Seliger, who has photographed celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Emma Stone and Chris Pratt.
Other Brooklyn landmarks included in the book is the Kings Theatre with a photo by Jean Michel Berts. It took two years and $95million to restore the theater in Flatbush, which reopened in early 2015. Nearby, in the same neighborhood, the Sears Roebuck & Co. store stands tall in an image by Todd Boebel from 2007.
Luxury developments rising throughout the borough coupled with higher rents and prices has shifted neighborhoods' demographics. In Greenpoint, for example, low-rise warehouses are giving way to high-end towers as the neighborhood braces for an influx of new residents.
The book, which has 250 images, reflects that 'Brooklyn is an attitude. It's got more grit, chutzpah, and moxie than anyplace else,' according to a news release. 'And, unlike its neighbor across the river, Manhattan, it has a great sense of humor about itself.'
A new book, which has 250 images, reflects that 'Brooklyn is an attitude. It's got more grit, chutzpah, and moxie than anyplace else,' according to a news release. 'And, unlike its neighbor across the river, Manhattan, it has a great sense of humor about itself.' Andre D. Wagner's 'Tomorrows Leaders,' taken in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 2013
Christopher Anderson's Poster Boy from 2008, the year of the financial crisis. Luxury developments rising throughout the borough coupled with higher rents and prices has shifted neighborhoods' demographics
A sense of whimsy infuses Josh Ethan Johnson's 'Magnification 02' from 2017
A look at the borough from above in Pascal Perich's 'Brooklyn from Sky' from 2008
A new book, 'Brooklyn Photographs Now,' seeks to put the borough in focus, unlike this photograph by Jack Pierson
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