Description: Hotel Seventeen -- located on 17th street in Manhattan -- is one of the more affordable hotel alternatives in New York City, and features an extraordinary array of guests. The hotel is full of people who have traveled from all over the world to participate in the life of one of the world's cultural capitals, full of optimism and great expectations -- young actors, fashion designers, photographers, models, film students, punks and other rock musicians, and drag queens. Stars like Madonna, David Bowie, and Woody Allen have been spotted at Hotel Seventeen, arriving for photo shoots and movie scenes. Inspired by such fleeting moments of glamour, yet with only a hazy notion of what their goals are, many of the hotel guests continue to live the dream that someday their talents will be discovered. Photographer Jorg Fokuh documents these dreamers whose week-long stays in the hotel have extended into lifetimes.

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