![]() ![]() There is only so much money to be made in Atlantic City – and the pie isn’t going to get any bigger. “They want to revitalise the area by building more casinos,” says Rose, “which shows there’s no real lesson being learned. From a high of 66,000 people in the 1930s, the city now has fewer than 40,000 full-time residents and a cityscape marred by empty lots and abandoned buildings, including not a few derelict casinos. Photo by Brian Rose.Īfter photographing the city in 2016, Rose has reflected on its current condition as a metaphor for American development as a whole. Taj Mahal Elephant, sculpted by Michael MacLeod. ![]() Of Rose's photograph of the now abandoned building, The Guadian's Thomas Hobbs writes that " exterior look eerily quiet, as if all its workers had left in a sudden hurry, with what was once a thriving casino now unkempt and surrounded by damaged sand dunes." He said in January he had lost about 300 million. The photographs recently presented of the city by Brian Rose confirm this identity through an emphasis on the monumental failure of Donald Trump Taj Mahal Casino and other blights in its short history. Icahn, who also owns Atlantic Citys Tropicana Casino and Resort, said he decided one casino in town is enough. New Jersey's Atlantic City has rarely risen to the ranks of glitz and glamor attributed to other gambling cities. "The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City," the comedian Drew Carey said, "is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head."Ītlantic City’s former Revel casino. ![]()
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