Title: Outer boroughs :
Authors: Meyers, William; Morrone, Francis.; Goldberg, Vicki
Date: 2014
Publisher: Damiani,
Physical description: 191 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 x 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: T
Abstract: Continues the tradition -- actually the several traditions -- of photography in New York City. The predecessors of William Meyers worked almost entirely in Manhattan, but he worked in the other four boroughs -- Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Most of his pictures were taken on anonymous streets where the people of the place live and go about their business; they represent the quotidian, not the spectacular; they are the outer boroughs of the spirit as well as of the physical city.The work is not concerned with documentation, the way things look, but with thusness -- the feel of a place at a particular moment. Each image represents a certain time in a certain part of a certain city where, he has found, even in unlikely neighborhoods there are occasions for beauty.
Subject headings (LCSH): Meyers, William 1938-; Meyers, William, 1938-; New York (N.Y.)--Pictorial works.; Photographers--United States; Photography of interiors; Street photography--New York (State)--New York.