Atlantic City, Forlorn

Blog overview

In his book Atlantic City, American photographer Brian Rose captures a haunting image of the city once known as ‘the World’s Playground’, by documenting what remains of the city in the aftermath of the casino explosion. John Adams director Tracy Metz selected photographs from the book showing Atlantic City as a symbol of excess and decline.

Atlantic City: Excess and Decline

By Tracy Metz

January 16, 2020

  In this fourth and final blog of this series, John Adams director Tracy Metz selected photographs from Brian Rose’s book ‘Atlantic City’ showing Atlantic City as a symbol of excess and decline.   “Atlantic City is a dramatic symbol of American excess and decline. Once the most popular family vacation destination in the United …...

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Trump’s failed Kingdom

By Tracy Metz

January 13, 2020

  For the third blog of this series, John Adams director Tracy Metz selected several photographs from Brian Rose’s book ‘Atlantic City’ showing the remnants of Donald Trump’s failed Atlantic City kingdom. “The shuttered Trump Plaza will likely be torn down. It is one of four casinos that closed in 2014, representing a third of …...

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Can Trump make Atlantic City great again?

By Tracy Metz

January 9, 2020

  For the second blog of this series, John Adams director Tracy Metz selected photographs from Brian Rose’s book ‘Atlantic City’ showing the effect Donald Trump had on the city.   “As for Michael MacLeod, the sculptor of the elephants outside the Taj, he says his anger over the episode has faded, and he can …...

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Taj Mahal in Atlantic City

By Tracy Metz

January 6, 2020

  Atlantic City, on the coast of New Jersey, was born in the mid-nineteenth century and grew so big, so fast, that it captured the American imagination. It was ‘the World’s Playground’. Its hotels were the largest and finest, its nightclubs legendary. And then, as it began to fade, the casinos came. Donald Trump was …...

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