{"product_id":"taxi-journey-through-my-windows-1977-1987-9781576879313","title":"Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977-1987","description":"New York City in the late '70s was a collection of villages with its downtown scene, midtown workers, and uptown elegance. It was also a city that was more integrated than ever before or ever would be again. All of the city's humanity met in its streets with layered soundtracks of salsa, rock, disco, reggae, and soon hip-hop booming for all to groove to. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But, NYC was also a place of chaos and mayhem. Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy with rampant crime it was the city's drug users, dealers, and pimps and prostitutes who ruled the streets of Manhattan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The grittiness of the city was a beacon and a promise to many outsiders, those who didn't quite fit into any mold, and a vibrant LGBTQ community became the nexus of an underworld of sex workers who liked to party. For a NYC cabbie such as Joseph Rodriguez, the hot spots to pick up fares were clubs like the Hellfire, Mineshaft, The Anvil, The Vault, and Show World. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Losing his first camera and lens in a classic '70s New York stabbing and mugging, Rodriguez's wounds healed and he armed himself with a new camera to document what he saw on the job: hookers getting off their shifts, transvestites and S\u0026amp;M partiers doin' it in the back seat or somehow pulling off an unlikely costume change from bondage gear to emerge from the cab clean-cut in an oxford and khakis ready to face unwitting family and friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A humanist at heart, his photographs speak of the dignity of the city's working class from all the boroughs and those struggling to get by. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Economic Hardship Reporting Project provided funding to support \u003ci\u003eTaxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977-1987\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e powerHouse Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/22\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781576879313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132","brand":"Joseph Rodriguez, Richard Price","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38028121276597,"sku":"9781576879313","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_217f27b0-97b3-4282-9e20-771a46d87f60.jpg?v=1609194583","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/taxi-journey-through-my-windows-1977-1987-9781576879313","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}