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D I L L O N M A S T
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This is a book of pictures of random blocks from across Philadelphia.
Philly is unique in how quickly and how drastically it can change from one block to the next. One block can be rife with trash and home to a makeshift shrine commemorating the life of a child gunned down, and the next, just yards away, can be home to a church two centuries-old or a faux-modern, newly-constructed house full of students from the suburbs.
Each page is one block, a photo for every corner, taken in random parts of the city, sequenced in no particular order. The page numbers are a key. The locations, as told by four streets which surround a given block, are at the back. Where relevant, the word “street” has been omitted.
This is a small picture of a city.
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01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19th | Diamond | Uber | Susquehanna Ave.
02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5th | Snyder | 4th | Emily
03 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Watts | Poplar | Girard Ave. | 13th
04 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12th | 13th | Hamilton | Buttonwood
05 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tucker | Cedar | Lehigh Ave. | Memphis
06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garnet | 19th | Porter | Shunk
07 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walnut | 17th | Rittenhouse Sq. | 18th
08 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wylie | Francis | Ride Ave. | Leland
09 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15th | Girard Ave. | Cambridge | Carlisle
10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mount Vernon | Green | Ridge Ave. | Broad
11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Memphis | Tulip | Letterly | Cumberland
12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Braddock | Coral | Huntingdon | Lehigh Ave.
13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parrish | Carlisle | Brown | Broad
14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11th | Race | 10th | Cherry
15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . York | Gordon | Cedar | Memphis
16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oregon Ave. | Alder | 10th | Shunk
17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7th | Sheridan | Johnston | Oregon Ave.
18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15th | Master | 16th | Seybert
19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18th | Gratz | Oxford | Cecil B. Moore Ave.
20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judson | Norris | Diamond | 24th
21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chestnut | 21st | 22nd | Ludlow
22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3rd | Oregon Ave. | 4th | “Does Not Exist ”
23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wolf | 6th | 5th | Ritner
24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Huntingdon | Trenton Ave. | Albert | Martha
25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aramingo Ave. | Auburn | Memphis | Somerset
26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18th | Ritner | Wolf | 19th
27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15th | North | 16th | Fairmount Ave.
28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21st | Oregon Ave. | Shunk | 22nd
29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15th | Chestnut | Broad | Penn Sq.
30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berks | 23rd | Croskey | Norris
31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23rd | Spruce | Cyrpress | 24th
32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hartranft | Darien | 11th | Pattison Ave.
33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18th | Wallace | 19th | Mount Vernon
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