Flashback Friday: The Phillips Family Of Dean Street

Alton and Eleanore Phillips lived with their two children at 416 Dean Street (between 4th and 5th Avenues)

The photo was taken on March 1, 1978 by photographer Dinanda Nooney. Nooney was known for photographing 200 individuals or families in their homes from January 1978 to April 1979:

…she crisscrossed the borough, documenting the broad ethnic and economic range of Brooklyn’s residents. The portraits that emerge are striking in their attention to the details of architecture and décor, which reveal just as much about the subjects as how they choose to pose themselves for Nooney’s camera. This project was the subject of an exhibition, At Home in Brooklyn, at the Long Island Historical Society in 1985.

The image is part of the NYPL Digital Collections and the The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection.

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