The City Beautiful Movement

• Photographer
  Elizabeth Holmes
• Photo Date
  2021

The City Beautiful Movement, formed during the late 1890’s and early 1900’s in North America, promoted building beautiful, monumental surroundings in cities to contribute and promote progressive reform and create moral and civic virtue in urban populations. The Manhattan Municipal Building in NYC was one of the last buildings to be erected during this movement. This architectural series connects us to our past and inspires us to make historical preservation a priority. "If we don’t care about our past, we can’t have much hope for our future.” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Elizabeth is a fine art photographer based in New York City specializing in architecture, street and landscape photography. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Fordham University and studied commercial photography at LaGuardia Community College. Inspired by her desire to discover places with a strong sense of place, Elizabeth has photographed iconic scenes along Route 66, the coastal and small town beauty of Long Island’s East End, architectural treasures in the urban landscape, and vanishing storefronts in New York City. Her work has been part of domestic and international gallery shows.