A city under pressure
The volume
A city under pressure
Chelsea, Massachusetts history from the late 1970s into the early 1990s, told through Joshua Resnek’s firsthand narrative and Arnie Jarmak’s documentary photography.
A long-form record of the years when neighborhood life, public institutions and the city’s sense of itself were under sustained pressure.
EraLate 1970s–early 1990s
PlaceChelsea, Massachusetts
SeriesVolume 1 of 4
The record / Volume 1
What this
volume holds.
- 01Street life
- 02Public institutions
- 03Political change
- 04Daily survival
Why it matters
This volume establishes the scale of the project. Chelsea is not reduced to a crisis or a headline; it is seen through the accumulated detail of ordinary life across a turbulent era.
From the approved cover
The cover joins two of Jarmak’s documentary photographs: musicians gathered at a fence and children in motion on a Chelsea street.