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Golden Reuel - New York. Portrait Of A City - Hardcover
Golden Reuel - New York. Portrait Of A City - Hardcover
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Description: This book presents the epic story of New York on nearly 600 pages of emotional atmospheric photographs from the mid - 19th century to the present day. Supplementing this treasure trove of images are over a hundred quotations and references from seminal books movies shows and songs. The city's fluctuating fortunes are all represented from the wild nights of the Jazz Age to the hedonistic disco era from to the grim days of the Depression to the devastation of 9/11 and its aftermath as its brokenhearted but unbowed citizens picked up the pieces. New York's remarkable rise reinvention and growth are not just the tale of a city but the story of a nation From the building of the Brooklyn Bridge to the immigrants arriving at Ellis Island; from the slums of the Lower East Side to the magnificent art deco skyscrapers. The urban beach of Coney Island and the sleaze of Times Square; the vistas of Central Park and the crowds on Fifth Avenue. The streets the sidewalks the chaos the energy the ethnic diversity the culture the fashion the architecture the anger and the complexity of the city are all laid out in this kaleidoscopic book. This is the greatest city in the world after all and great are its extremes contradictions and attitude. More than just a remarkable tribute to the metropolis and its civic social and photographic heritage New York: Portrait of a City pays homage to the indomitable spirit of those who call themselves New Yorkers: full of hope and strength resolute in their determination to succeed among its glass and granite towers. Features hundreds of iconic images sourced from dozens of archives and private collections many never before published and the work of over 150 celebrated photographers including Victor Prevost Jacob Riis Lewis Hine Alfred Stieglitz Paul Strand Berenice Abbott Walker Evans Weegee Margaret Bourke - White Saul Leiter Esther Bubley Arnold Newman William Claxton Ralph Gibson Ryan Mc Ginley Mitch Epstein Steve Schapiro Marvin Newman Joel Meyerowitz Andreas Feininger Charles Cushman Joseph Rodriguez Garry Winogrand Larry Fink Jamel Shabazz Allan Tannenbaum Bruce Davidson Helen Levitt Eugene de Salignac Ruth Orkin Joel Sternfeld Keizo Kitajima and many more.
Title: New York. Portrait Of A City
Author(s): Golden Reuel
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836505147
Pages: 560 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/23/2010
Category: Photographs: Collections
Description: This book presents the epic story of New York on nearly 600 pages of emotional atmospheric photographs from the mid - 19th century to the present day. Supplementing this treasure trove of images are over a hundred quotations and references from seminal books movies shows and songs. The city's fluctuating fortunes are all represented from the wild nights of the Jazz Age to the hedonistic disco era from to the grim days of the Depression to the devastation of 9/11 and its aftermath as its brokenhearted but unbowed citizens picked up the pieces. New York's remarkable rise reinvention and growth are not just the tale of a city but the story of a nation From the building of the Brooklyn Bridge to the immigrants arriving at Ellis Island; from the slums of the Lower East Side to the magnificent art deco skyscrapers. The urban beach of Coney Island and the sleaze of Times Square; the vistas of Central Park and the crowds on Fifth Avenue. The streets the sidewalks the chaos the energy the ethnic diversity the culture the fashion the architecture the anger and the complexity of the city are all laid out in this kaleidoscopic book. This is the greatest city in the world after all and great are its extremes contradictions and attitude. More than just a remarkable tribute to the metropolis and its civic social and photographic heritage New York: Portrait of a City pays homage to the indomitable spirit of those who call themselves New Yorkers: full of hope and strength resolute in their determination to succeed among its glass and granite towers. Features hundreds of iconic images sourced from dozens of archives and private collections many never before published and the work of over 150 celebrated photographers including Victor Prevost Jacob Riis Lewis Hine Alfred Stieglitz Paul Strand Berenice Abbott Walker Evans Weegee Margaret Bourke - White Saul Leiter Esther Bubley Arnold Newman William Claxton Ralph Gibson Ryan Mc Ginley Mitch Epstein Steve Schapiro Marvin Newman Joel Meyerowitz Andreas Feininger Charles Cushman Joseph Rodriguez Garry Winogrand Larry Fink Jamel Shabazz Allan Tannenbaum Bruce Davidson Helen Levitt Eugene de Salignac Ruth Orkin Joel Sternfeld Keizo Kitajima and many more.
Title: New York. Portrait Of A City
Author(s): Golden Reuel
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836505147
Pages: 560 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/23/2010
Category: Photographs: Collections
