The Chelsea Series / Four volumes

One city.
Four books.

Journalism, social history and black-and-white documentary photography. Four bearings on one changing city.

01—04

Read separately, each volume records an era. Read together, they form a larger American story.

The complete record

Words hold the argument.
Photographs hold the evidence.

Volume 1 / Upheaval

Arnie Jarmak and Joshua Resnek

A documentary record of Chelsea from the late 1970s into the early 1990s, told through firsthand narrative and black-and-white photography.

Volume 2 / The city exposed

Arnie Jarmak and Joshua Resnek

A first-person narrative and documentary photographic record of life in Chelsea during the 1970s and 1980s.

Volume 3 / Memory

Joshua Resnek and Arnie Jarmak

Memoir, social history and black-and-white photography recalling Chelsea’s era as Little Jerusalem.

Volume 4 / Power

Joshua Resnek and Arnie Jarmak

A firsthand account of four administrations and the events that culminated in state receivership, paired with documentary photography.