This book shows images taken by Thomas Roma in Brooklyn from 1974-1990. The images are taken over a number of years but are all styled a similar way to make them work well as a set. The images are displayed usually on the right hand page of the book with a white boarder. Sometimes the images are displayed on both sides of the book, still with a white boarder, and I personally think the images look better this way. The photographs are all black and white and landscape format.
Roma has portrayed Brooklyn to be fairly quiet and care free, as a lot of the images show run down gardens (possibly people being too lazy to look after them) and the people within the images seem to be not doing very much. The book doesn't contain many photographs of people - possibly showing that Brooklyn is a quiet place. This would seem quite ironic seeing as it is right next to the very busy city of New York City. I think the images that contain people look very staged like he has asked them to model for him instead of looking like street photographs where they are more natural.
The book is a soft paper back and about 8x10 size. This makes the reader want to flick through the book rather than to study it slowly. A large, hardback heavy book would draw the audience in more and make them want to study the images in more detail as they would have more of an impact. Roma's book is a little bit more personal as the reader can hold it in their hands and flick through it.
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