New York City Transit Authority: Objects

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The evolving design of New York subway ephemera: a collector’s story

New York City Transit Authority: Objects originated as a photography experiment. In 2011, New York photographer Brian Kelley started documenting collections of used MetroCards in his Brooklyn studio, arranging them in quite a lot of grids with the goal of perfecting the lighting of an image. His brother suggested he make the grids more interesting by finding other types of cards. Having exhausted his seek for discarded MetroCards in a few of the city’s 472 subway stations, Kelley turned to eBay for new finds. The online rabbit-hole gave him a crash course in the history of NYC transportation. He found out tokens dating back to 1860, a ticket stub from 1885 when it cost three cents to take the train across the Brooklyn Bridge, in addition to patches, matchbooks, tokens, timetables, pins and signs, posting his photographs of these finds on Tumblr and Instagram. Six years on, many MTA employees follow and advocate his project, once in a while contacting him with information and tips on rare items. As the collection grew, Kelley recognized that there have been no comparable digital archives documenting the city’s transportation evolution.

New York City Transit Authority: Objects is a story told through the evolving design that spans decades of the city’s history. Kelley’s objects tell a greater story of New York’s past. For him, The NYCTA Project remains a photography experiment and self-funded hobby, archiving the culture of his home city. For the reader, it is an intimate view of the city’s history that merges design and infrastructure over the last 150 years.

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