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Malls Across America by Michael Galinsky

In 1989 Michael Galinsky, a twenty-year-old photographer, drove across the country recording this change: the spaces, textures and pace that defined this era. Starting in the winter of 1989 with the Smith Haven Mall in Garden City Long Island, Galinsky photographed malls from North Carolina to South Dakota, Washington State and beyond. The photos he took capture life in these malls as it began to shift from the shiny excess of the 1980s towards an era of slackers and grunge culture. Malls Across America is filled with seemingly lost or harried families navigating their way through these temples of consumerism, along with playful teens, misfits and the aged.

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kathleen performing with bikini kill at CBGB, NYC, November 13, 1991. by michael galinsky.

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Badminton

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Lucas Silva (Bauru)

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Boxing

Michael Trindade (Marituba)

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Wanderley Pereira (Curitiba)

Keno Machado (Sapeaçu)

Abner Da Silva; Jr. (Sorocaba)

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Tatiana Chagas (Salvador)

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Cycling

Ulan Galinski (São Paulo)

Vinícius Costa (Cabo Frio)

Gustavo De Oliveira (Carapicuíba)

Ana Magalhães (Rio De Janeiro)

Raiza Henrique (Pirenópolis)

Paola Reis (Brasília)

Diving

Isaac Filho (Rio De Janeiro)

Ingrid De Oliveira (Rio De Janeiro)

Equestrian

João Oliva (São Paulo)

Márcio Jorge (Colina)

Rafael Losano (Rio Claro)

Carlos Paro (Colina)

Ruy Filho (São Paulo)

Stephan Barcha (Rio De Janeiro)

Yuri Mansur (São Paulo)

Rodrigo Pessoa (Wilton, Connecticut)

Pedro Veniss (Rio De Janeiro)

Fencing

Guilherme Toldo (Porto Alegre)

Mariana Pistoia (São Paulo)

Nathalie Moellhausen (Milan, Italy)

Gymnastics

Arthur Mariano (Campinas)

Diogo Soares (Piracicaba)

Rayan Dutra (Belo Horizonte)

Rebeca De Andrade (Guarulhos)

Jade Barbosa (Curitiba)

Lorrane Oliveira (Nova Iguaçu)

Flávia Saraiva (Rio De Janeiro)

Júlia Soares (Colombo)

Bárbara Domingos (Curitiba)

Maria Arakaki (Maceió)

Victória Borges (Aracaju)

Déborah Barbosa (Aracaju)

Sofia Pereira (São Paulo)

Nicole Duarte (Aracaju)

Camilla Gluckstein (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey)

Handball

Gabriela Moreschi (Maringá)

Marcela Arounian (São Paulo)

Jhennifer Dos Santos (Brasília)

Kelly Rosa (São Paulo)

Bruna De Paula (Campestre)

Mariane Fernándes (Niterói)

Tamires De Araújo (Rio De Janeiro)

Jéssica Quintino (São Paulo)

Larissa Araújo (Curitiba)

Adriana De Castro (Fortaleza)

Giulia Guarieiro (São Paulo)

Gabriela Bitolo (São Paulo)

Patrícia Machado (Rio De Janeiro)

Renata De Arruda (Olinda)

Judo

Michel Augusto (Bastos)

Willian Lima (Mogi Das Cruzes)

Daniel Cargnin (Porto Alegre)

Guilherme Schimidt (Brasília)

Rafael De Macedo (Porto Alegre)

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Ketleyn Quadros (Ceilândia)

Mayra Da Silva (Porto Alegre)

Beatriz De Souza (Itariri)

Pentathlon

Isabela Abreu (Brasília)

Rowing

Lucas Ferreira (Rio De Janeiro)

Beatriz Cardoso (São Paulo)

Rugby

Milena Mariano (São José Dos Campos)

Gisele Dos Santos (Brasília)

Yasmim Soares (São Paulo)

Mariana Nicolau (São José Dos Campos)

Luiza Campos (Porto Alegre)

Thalia Costa (São Luís)

Thalita Costa (São Luís)

Marina Costa (São Bernardo Do Campo)

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Raquel Kochhann (Saudades)

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Marcelle Souza (Rio De Janeiro)

Sailing

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João Bulhões (Rio De Janeiro)

Mateus Isaac (São Paulo)

Bruno Lobo (São Luís)

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Henrique Haddad (Rio De Janeiro)

Gabriella Kidd (Salvador)

Marina Arndt (São Paulo)

Martine Grael (Niterói)

Kahina Kunze (São Paulo)

Isabel Swan (Rio De Janeiro)

Shooting

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Geovana Meyer (Joinville)

Georgia Bastos (São Paulo)

Skateboarding

Luigi Cini (Curitiba)

Augusto Dos Santos (Curitiba)

Pedro Barros (Florianópolis)

Felipe Gustavo (Brasília)

Kelvin Hoefler (Guarujá)

Giovanni Vianna (Santo André)

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Soccer

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Surfing

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Swimming

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Table tennis

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Taekwondo

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Maria Pacheco (São Caetano Do Sul)

Caroline Dos Santos (São Caetano Do Sul)

Tennis

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Bea Maia (São Paulo)

Laura De Andrade (Barcelona, Spain)

Luisa Stefani (São Paulo)

Triathlon

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Manoel Dos Santos; Jr. (Fortaleza)

Djenyfer Arnold (São Paulo)

Vittória De Mello (Fortaleza)

Volleyball

Arthur Lanci (Maringá)

Lukas Bergmann (Toledo)

Adriano Xavier (Murici)

André Stein (Vila Velha)

George Wanderley (Campina Grande)

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Yoandy Leal (Contagem)

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Lucas Saatkamp (Colinas)

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Ana De Souza (Rio De Janeiro)

Ana Da Silva (Belo Horizonte)

Júlia Bergmann (Toledo)

Weightlifting

Amanda Schott (São Paulo)

Laura Amaro (Brasília)

Wrestling

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AI effect

Working on LORELAI meant new breakthroughs were made almost every month. However, the truly exhausting part of the job was meeting his brother Michael and trying to convince him that the breakthrough was not just-

"A computation" Michael replied, stubbornly. I wondered if he even knew what that word meant, but Thanksgiving dinner was in two weeks and Michael was definitely the type to gossip over dinner.

"Michael. It has officially beaten the grandmaster Galinsky in chess. How is that just a computation?" I hated these conversations, but I had almost convinced him when we managed to get LORELAI to identify human emotions from pictures accurately. However, that was probably because he was insecure that AI could steal his job as a psychologist. He somehow remained unconvinced, but I was hooked on the near achievement and it felt nice to have an active conversation with him every once in a while.

"If you give a normal person perfect memory of every possible chess move in the books, anyone could do it." he maintained. I considered arguing that a normal person couldn't figure out the best move in seconds, but I relented. As with every other breakthrough, the company had gone all out on the marketing to convince people and get more investors. It was above my pay grade to do their work.

"Let's talk about a different Lorelai then," he said, beaming and I looked at him confused. He pulled out his phone from his pocket and showed me a Tinder profile of a red-haired woman. Her profile said she was called Lorelai and she liked cats.

"We've been talking for about a week now and I'm pretty sure she likes me." he continued, grinning at me and glanced back at the photo of her.

"Well done. I'm happy for you." I responded. I wasn't happy for him but the contract meant I couldn't tell him anything until the project was over.

It was surprising and almost stupid of them to use LORELAI's real name in the project. The new project to determine whether humans could determine the difference between a real person and an AI at their most vulnerable- when we're searching for love. The project was launched a week ago and favourable results were achieved so far.

I smiled at one of the results and assured him that LORELAI seemed to like him as I planned to reread my work contract to save Michael from his third heartbreak.

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They’re at the bottom of the escalator, faces obscured.  They could be anyone — your grandparents, perhaps.  They don’t have shopping bags.  Perhaps they’ve just arrived, or maybe they’ve come for lunch at the food court … no.  That’s not it.  Look at the clothes: bold blocked pastels, light pinks, white pants, sneakers. They’re mall walkers.

If the unmistakable style doesn’t give the era away, the film stock’s grain does.

We’re looking into the past, into the heart of a time and place that is all but gone: the American shopping mall, monolithic and, in the late eighties, ubiquitous.

This is one of the most striking images in local photographer Michael Galinsky’s forthcoming photo book, The Decline of Mall Civilization, for which he’s raising funds on Kickstarter to publish in August.  (He’s surpassed his goal by more than $30,000.)   The composition is near-perfect, with the escalator’s lines and the floor’s tiles giving the image a distinct sense of movement.

But it wasn’t composition Galinsky had in mind.  Rather, it was simple point-and-shoot documentation, capturing a moment that would soon be lost to memory.

In 1989, Galinsky — a native of Chapel Hill, best known for images published in 2013 he took, while in high school, of a 1987 KKK march down Franklin Street — was a sophomore at New York University.  Fascinated by the work of photographers William Eggleston and Robert Frank, and inspired by the anthropology and sociology he was studying in college, Galinsky wanted to examine the mall as a “privatized public square.”  He began snapping photos at malls on Long Island.  Encouraged by a professor to continue his work that summer, Galinsky and a friend packed up his friend’s dented Toyota hatchback and struck out to document malls across America.

“I had recently read On The Road,” Galinsky says.  “I had this romantic notion of what [the trip] could be.  We’d meet interesting people and have wild adventures.  This did not happen.”

Hamstrung by what Galinsky describes as an inherent shyness and a lack of money, the duo plodded around the country for over a month, documenting fifteen malls from New York to Seattle, while crashing with friends, family, and sometimes in the back of the Toyota.

Upon his return to New York, Galinsky grew discouraged by the art world’s disinterest in point-and-shoot street photography.  He filed the mall photos away and focused on filmmaking and New York’s thriving indie rock scene.

In the decades since, Galinsky, along with his wife and creative partner, Suki Hawley, became an acclaimed independent filmmaker — from his debut, Half-Cocked, a black-and-white examination of Louisville’s nascent indie-rock scene, to the couple’s lauded Battle For Brooklyn.  But he’s remained an avid photographer, documenting the flora and fauna of Chapel Hill’s verdant Merritt’s Pasture and sharing his trove of pictures of legendary indie-rockers.

Twenty-one years after that cross-country journey, in 2010, Galinsky came upon the slides of those images while scanning his personal archives.  He realized that he had documents of a disappearing moment.  So he set up a Kickstarter campaign to fund the release of his first book of images, Malls Across America, in 2013.  That run of fifteen hundred books sold out before Galinsky had a chance to solicit stores for copies.

The Decline of Mall Civilization picks up where Malls Across America left off, offering yet another window into what was the cultural and civic hub of much of the U.S.  And while both books examine the culture of the shopping mall at the height of its popularity, Decline approaches the images as companions to one another, rather than the two-page, single-image spreads of Malls Across America.

“We spent a lot of time and effort pairing the images into diptychs that play off each other in interesting ways,” Galinsky says.

The fashions are amusing, the hairstyles embarrassing, the neon signage and retro-futuristic fonts almost a joke.  But the photos are intimate portraits of a time when commerce was communal — and when you could still smoke inside.

It’s no coincidence that collective nostalgia trips happen in two-to-three-decade cycles, as it’s then that the shapers of our cultural capital — our filmmakers, fashion designers, and musicians — are reaching the peak of their creative careers.

For those who grew up in the fifties, there was American Graffiti; for children of the sixties, Wonder Years; the seventies, Dazed and Confused (and That ‘70s Show).  In the same way, the Durham native Duffer brothers’ Stranger Things reignited our curiosity in the styles, sounds, and looks (and New Coke) of the eighties.

And while traces of eighties nostalgia can be found in fashion (hello, big hair and shoulder pads) and music (popular and otherwise), nowhere is it more prominent than on our television screens.

“San Junipero,” the most lauded episode of post-technology horror show Black Mirror, is drenched in the style of the Me Generation; Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence are once again karate-kicking all over Reseda in Cobra Kai; Alison Brie and Marc Maron take to the ring in the ladies’ wrestling gem GLOW; HBO’s masterful, haunting series Chernobyl examines the 1986 nuclear disaster that killed untold thousands (and nearly killed millions more).

And then there’s Stranger Things, which first took us to the Upside Down in 2017.

A central character of the Netflix show’s third season is the Starcourt Mall, which the producers built inside a derelict mall in an Atlanta suburb.  In the show, set in summer 1985, the shiny, new mall is a beacon of growth for the fictional Hawkins, Indiana, and parallels its protagonists’ emotional evolution.

Striking fear in the hearts of Hawkins’s mom-and-pops, the Starcourt Mall is a picture-perfect rendering of the classic malls of the eighties.  This was the time when malls were king — and it makes you wonder from which local mall Matt and Ross Duffer drew inspiration: The long-shuttered South Square Mall, a cornerstone of Durham life from 1975 to 2002, when it was overwhelmed by the then-new Streets at Southpoint.   Or maybe the Northgate Mall, which just moved out of bankruptcy but still faces an uncertain future at the hands of its new investment-bank owners.  Or perhaps Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, which opened in 1972 and is today the largest enclosed mall in the Triangle, yet is still fighting for its very existence.  (Mall officials recently unveiled a $290 million proposal for a thirty-floor mixed-use building that will replace a vacant Sears and, they hope, help the mall “evolve with the times.”)

Or, more likely, it’s some amalgam of all of those — and other long-forgotten malls.

The era of mall supremacy, the one Galinsky’s book documents, wasn’t long-lived.  Malls in America saw their boom begin in concert with the postwar generation’s migration to the suburbs and the rise of automobile culture.  In 1956, an enclosed shopping center called Southdale opened in a Minneapolis suburb, the first mall.  By 1960, there were more than forty-five hundred of them across the U.S.  The boom peaked somewhere in the mid-nineties.  By 2004, the U.S. had more than forty-seven thousand malls.

The collapse came quick.  Malls took their biggest hit from the Great Recession.  Between 2007 and 2009, more than four hundred of the largest ones closed.  By the time the economy regained steam, online shopping was ubiquitous, and the re-urbanization of America was underway, with young people returning to the cities their parents and grandparents had abandoned.

The seemingly inescapable decline of what was once called the “New American Main Street” had fully taken hold.

Unlike Stranger Things, unlike Cobra Kai, and unlike “San Junipero,” The Decline of Mall Civilization exists as more than a paean to a bygone era.

Despite its name, an homage to Penelope Spheeris’s landmark examination of Los Angeles’s early-eighties punk scene, Decline is a document detached from the haze of memory.  Its subjects were real people, living real lives; its images are renderings of what life actually looked like in 1989.

Maybe, somewhere in his subconscious, Galinsky knew then that someday these monoliths would go extinct.

“I was twenty when I shot these,” Galinsky says.  “My field of vision wasn’t that deep.  But I was vaguely aware that they would be gone.  I did understand the import of documenting something before it was gone.”

He had no way of knowing what would come after them.

But just as malls replaced the mom-and-pops across America, leaving once-bustling suburban hubs riddled with shuttered windows and empty sidewalks, now Amazon and eBay have rendered malls obsolete, monuments to an outmoded time when we shopped, ate, lingered, and smoked inside together.

Which makes you wonder what nostalgia for the 2010s is going to look like twenty years from now.

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Michael Galinsky - Malls Across America, 1989

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Movie #1931 - Who Took Johnny (2014)

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At the mall, 1989

photo by Michael Galinsky

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Malls Across America, 1989 © Michael Galinsky

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bikini kill at CBGB, NYC, November 13, 1991. by michael galinsky.

[whatjanewore]

Today’s theme: Malls Across America, by Michael Galinsky

The bottom image is from Michael Galinsky’s awesome book of photos documenting American malls in 1989.  That guy who looks like he worked at Merry Go Round is dressed like the lead singer of Hopscotch Army, a band I used to see all the time in 1989 in Bloomington.  I can’t remember his name but he wore a lot of jewelry, so I did too today.

Photos of me by Joey, 1/9/17; theme suggested  by Veena.

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Half Cocked Trailer 2018

***new scan from the negative*** full film at Vimeo.com/ondemand/halfcocked Made in 1994 in Louisville, Nashville and Chattanooga, HALF-COCKED follows a group of kids who steal a van full of music equipment and pretend to be a band in order to stay on the road. The film features Ian Svenonius and members of Rodan and The Grifters, playing versions of themselves. With music by Unwound, Slant 6, Freakwater, Versus, Polvo, Smog, Helium and others. After completing the film Hawley and Galinsky took the film on tour showing it rock clubs across the US and Europe. “It doesn’t seem too bold to say Half-Cocked is an Easy Rider for the 90’s and deserves as much attention.”-Eric Gladstone, ALTERNATIVE PRESS “Bracing in it’s dry humor and first hand accuracy”-VARIETY “Hawley and Galinsky know how to make pictures shudder with feeling”- MANOHLA DARGIS "Life among young bohos and would-be rockers gets a strikingly true-to-life treatment in the deadpan road movie "Half-Cocked." Co-creators Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky are indie-rock scene veterans, experience that shows in every frame. While the no-budgeter may be too insiderish and understated for the Generation X masses, its wry comic veracity could score a bull's-eye with hip college auds."- GODFREY CHESHIRE, VARIETY This raw and moody drama from 1994, by the husband-and-wife team of Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky (they co-wrote, she directed and edited, and he photographed, in appealingly grainy black-and-white), captures a moment of grungy charm, when independent art-rock scenes were new and resolutely local. A quintet living in a ramshackle house in Louisville gets a gig at a club, but the show turns sour when the vain, pretentious glam-punk Otis (Ian Svenonius) goes onstage and smacks Tara (Tara Jane O’Neil), the quintet’s spiritual leader—and his sister—for spoiling his encore. In revenge, Tara steals his van and equipment and drives the rest of the band to Chattanooga, where they scuffle along in fear and desperation. Though the aesthetic is rough-and-ready, Hawley is a sincere and sensitive storyteller who brings the characters to life with subtle, oblique touches that show who they are without saying too much about them. Casting highly regarded indie rockers and filling the soundtrack with their songs, Hawley movingly roots their music in a way of life as well as in the grimy urban landscapes they inhabit. — Richard Brody -New Yorker

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After almost a one year hiatus, our @kchungradio show is back on-air! Tune in at 8pm PST this evening to hear Michael Galinsky (@rumurpix) share about the songs that influenced him growing up 🎧 . TONITE …the charming mistakes of my youth... (#54) returns! Thursday, Feb 18th, 8-9pm PST special guest: Michael Galinsky . #music #nostalgia #Proust #chapelhill #brooklyn #losangeles #childhood #adolescence #hiatus #filmmaking #photography #repost @kchungradio . https://www.kchungradio.org/stream #linkinbio👆 (at Kchung Radio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLcwZB6l7eR/?igshid=1600j3nw3s4iw

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