1) These photos are from a series by Christopher Wool called "East broadway breakdown" of a neighborhood in New York City. With a 35mm film camera Wool, took photographs of his neighborhood in the dead of night. All of which were take in 1994-1995, The book itself - east broadway breakdown was completed in 2003.
2) These high contrast photographs offer a more grungy and alternative perspective to this small neighborhood. Even though they show a town that already looks to be slightly disorganized the contrast has a sharper pull on your eye. His vision of being "street level" are perfectly achieved by his techniques. Creating an even more eerie effect on them by shooting at night.
3) I feel that it is very different driving through a bad neighborhood than to get eye level with one, which these photographs offer to you. You get a more personal look into what they're really like and the true sketchy feel. I do however, think that if Wool, would have shot these in digital or even color film and another time of day they would have conveyed a completely different message. These give you an uncomfortable, sketchy, eerie feeling where as color may have made these locations just look dirty.
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