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New York%u2019s Album Holds A Trove of Beauty and Nostalgia%u201c Super Shooter%u201d by Arnold Meisner, part of a show in the Community Gallery ofthe Brooklyn Museum entitled %u201c 12 Brooklyn Photographers,%u201d through January 15.BY PATRICIA STEGMANTwo exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum are like two sets oi observations on the same theme. %u201c New York Album%u201d is a collection of photographs, prints, and drawings about this city, selected from ihe Museum%u2019s permanent collections. %u201c 12 Brooklyn Photographers,%u201d in the Community Gallery, is a contemporary version of the same theme, with a local flavor which makes the show especially pertinent.In the first show, works of artists as famous as Alfred Steiglitz hang beside those of artists we may now know, and the real delight is in discovering those new to us. For this reviewer, it was the etchings of Martin Lewis, executed in the 1930%u2019s, including %u201c Yorkvillc Night,%u201d %u201c Lights of the City,%u201d and %u201c Stoops in Snow.%u201d Another joy: rediscovering Joseph Pennell. His dark and moody aquatint etchings with their marvelous velvety blacks remind us that reputations rise and fall, and there is much validity in works of late unfashionable.Proving himself a master again, Edward Hopper%u2019s two etchings, the more familiar %u201c Night Shadows%u201d %u2014 a man walking down what could be Atlantic Avenue-and the beautiful %u201c Housetops,%u201d in which they are seen from the interior of an elevated train. What marvelouseconomy of stroke, and what glowing blackness in the shadows!PHOTOREALISM%u201c Strictly Kosher Meats and Poultry,%u201d a color lithograph by Don Eddy, reminds us, by the way ithob-nobs so well with the earlier works, that the tradition of photorealism grows quite naturally out of our past, and only seems new compared with the abstraction which reigned before it.This is a show of several hundredworks, with more than fifty artists represented. It is fascinating not only for aesthetic reasons, but for reasons of history and nostalgia as well. Space prohibits a detailed discussion, but the exhibit is crammed with delights and shouldnot be missed.%u201c 12 Brooklyn Photographers,%u201d a recent installation in the Community Gallery, includes fine work by Mark Boritz, who shows small sepia prints of architectural details, revealing an austere and abstract sensibility. Harry Lapow, with his shots of Coney Island beachpeople, has a more sardonic eye. Roger Haile assembles panoramic views from a scries of contact prints, and reveals a factual and objective approach. Wayne Clark shows tender and beautifully composed interior shots of his Crown Heights neighbors from Barbados.Thomas Gcrmano%u2019s prints of Brooklyn backyards elevate the ordinary to the poetic. Alan Forman and Laimutc Druskis, with their slide group, called %u201cThe Neon Show,%u201d have travelled all over Brooklyn capturing the beauties of neon signs. Neil Tragcr shows fine portrait studies of mechanics in Bcdford-St uy vesan i.One of my favorite photographs is %u201c Supcr-Skooter,%u201d by Arnold Meisner, who shows architectural compositions, while Marilyn Nanc presents scenes from the daily life of Clinton Hill.An unusually fine exhibit, this show is a possibility for Christmas shopping. For the right person, a photograph makes a glorious gift. 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