--- title: See What Vintage Miami Was Like description: Brenda Ann Kenneally's portraits of Miami's eccentric past speak of the city's economic and racial divisions canonical: https://time.com/3598313/gentrification-miami-vintage-photography/ author: Richard Conway article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-03T09:00:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:41:47.905Z article:section: World og:title: See What Vintage Miami Was Like og:description: Brenda Ann Kenneally's portraits of Miami's eccentric past speak of the city's economic and racial divisions og:url: https://time.com/3598313/gentrification-miami-vintage-photography/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt555ab705b27a7ebe/69876b05428a9ee42dcc5a1b/jmm-3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Miami Beauty Queens c. 1950 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See What Vintage Miami Was Like twitter:description: Brenda Ann Kenneally's portraits of Miami's eccentric past speak of the city's economic and racial divisions twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt555ab705b27a7ebe/69876b05428a9ee42dcc5a1b/jmm-3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See What Vintage Miami Was Like > Sponsored content. 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It was there that she got her start photographing Florida locals on the streets and in their homes. Over a seven-year period, she produced striking, even challenging, shots that spoke of the city’s economic and racial divisions. And while the pictures, she says, may not have been her most technically proficient, they captured the “soul” of the place. Later, Kenneally moved to Bushwick, New York and began photographing on the streets there too. It would be _these_ images that would bring her to national attention for chronicling life before societal shifts gripped parts of the New York neighborhood. On a return trip to the Sunshine State, though, she soon discovered that pretty much the same thing was happening to her old stomping ground. The dreaded “g-word,” as she calls it, gentrification, had taken over Miami. And today, she feels her old work has become ever more relevant. “The change is huge. I actually wound up having a photo show of my pictures from Bushwick in one of the warehouses I used to live in,” Kenneally says. “It had been turned into a gallery. The area \[I lived in\] is now called Midtown and there’s a PetSmart.” Miami has been undoubtedly transformed by the presence of Art Basel, the annual art fair held in the city since 2002\. Indeed, the festival’s effect on the city is [often likened](http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/the-art-basel-effect/) to the [economic transformation](http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21591708-if-you-build-it-will-they-come-bilbao-effect) of Bilbao, Spain spurred by the opening of the Guggenheim Bilbao. Now, Kenneally — working with Giselle Devera, a former owner of Gallery I/D, and production assistant Sean MacDonald — has produced the installation _Vintage Miami Photographs, 1939-2003._ The aim? To remind locals what Miami used to be like and to let visitors see the history of the streets they walk down. To achieve this, she spent months collecting photographs of the city spanning the years 1930 to 2003 — often featuring locals in areas such as Overtown and Downtown Miami — and she will now project them onto the sides of buildings at the Grub Stake Good Works Thrift store, the [Lotus House Shelter](http://lotushouse.org/) and the [Downtown Art House](https://www.facebook.com/downtownarthouse) during the four-day long festival. “I thought it would be a statement without beating people over the head,” she says. “It’s undeniable that as these neighborhoods change some of the people don’t fit and they disappear. You know how they say ‘when you photograph someone you take a piece of their soul?’ \[In a sense\] these souls are sort of in my care now. My mission is to say that the life that is on any street at any time is vital.” “It’s always good to know who walked on the ground before we got here,” Kenneally adds. “I want to document the souls \[that\] these neighborhoods were built upon. The history of them is really important.” [**_Brenda Ann Kenneally_**](http://www.therawfile.org/)_is a photographer based in New York._ **_Richard Conway_** _is reporter/producer for TIME LightBox._ **_Paul Moakley_**_, who edited this photo essay, is TIME’s Deputy Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise._  Miami Herald Tropic Magazine Color Photos 1991-1996 Brenda Kenneally  Miami Herald Tropic Magazine Color Photos 1991-1996 Brenda Ann Kenneally  Investigations of an Undercover Human Being: Miami 1989- 1996 Brenda Ann Kenneally  Investigations of an Undercover Human Being: Miami 1989-1996 Brenda Ann Kenneally  Miami Herald Tropic Magazine Color Photos 1991-1996 Brenda Ann Kenneally  Miami Herald Tropic Magazine Color Photos 1991-1996 Brenda Ann Kenneally  Investigations of an Undercover Human Being: Miami 1989-1996 Brenda Ann Kenneally  Miami Beauty Queens c. 1950 Collection of Matt Malone Miami Club Rum  Investigations of an Undercover Human Being: Miami 1989-1996 Brenda Ann Kenneally  Miami Herald Tropic Magazine Color Photos 1991-1996 Brenda Ann Kenneally  Die Yuppie Scum: Miami Beach 1992-1995 Jill Freedman  Die Yuppie Scum: Miami Beach 1992-1995 Jill Freedman  Die Yuppie Scum: Miami Beach 1992-1995 Jill Freedman  Miami in The 80's Charles Trainor  Miami in The 80's CHARLES TRAINOR  Investigations of an Undercover Human Being: Miami 1989-1996 Brenda Ann Kenneally  Investigations of an Undercover Human Being: Miami 1989-1996 Brenda Ann Kenneally  Investigations of an Undercover Human Being: Miami 1989-1996 Brenda Ann Kenneally  South Beach, 1979 Mary Ellen Mark  South Beach, 1979 Mary Ellen Mark  South Beach, 1979 Mary Ellen Mark  Overtown and The Graveyard 1988 Michel du Cille  Overtown and The Graveyard 1988 Michel du Cille  June in January: Miami, 1939 Marion Post Walcott  June in January: Miami, 1939 Marion Post Walcott  Passed Away: 1975-1999 Rosalind Fox Solomon  Passed Away: 1975-1999 Rosalind Fox Solomon  Passed Away: 1975-1999 Rosalind Fox Solomon  Passed Away: 1975-1999 Rosalind Fox Solomon  Passed Away: 1975-1999 Rosalind Fox Solomon ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3598313/gentrification-miami-vintage-photography/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3598313/gentrification-miami-vintage-photography/"},"headline":"See What Vintage Miami Was Like","datePublished":"2014-12-03T09:00:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:41:47.905Z","description":"Brenda Ann Kenneally's portraits of Miami's eccentric past speak of the city's economic and racial divisions","url":"https://time.com/3598313/gentrification-miami-vintage-photography/","keywords":["LightBox","Miami","photography","Florida","Gentrification"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt555ab705b27a7ebe/69876b05428a9ee42dcc5a1b/jmm-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Richard Conway","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/richard-conway/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt555ab705b27a7ebe/69876b05428a9ee42dcc5a1b/jmm-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Miami Beauty Queens c. 1950","caption":"Miami Beauty Queens c. 1950","creditText":"Collection of Matt Malone Miami Club Rum","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-lightbox/","name":"LightBox"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3598313/gentrification-miami-vintage-photography/","name":"See What Vintage Miami Was Like"}}]}] ```