New York in Photobooks
Publisher: RM Verlag, S.L.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9788416282746
Subjects: Photography, handbooks, manuals, etc.; New york (n.y.), pictorial works
Description: "New York in Photobooks gathers and studies a selection of images of the capital of the twentieth century, the most photogenic and most photographed city in history. In these images from the books selected (only a fraction of those in existence), the city of skyscrapers is captured from construction thereof in the 1930s to the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, alongside the urban life of the New Yorkers themselves, recorded in a model style of street photography. Many of the books are the work of European and Japanese photographers, who discovered multiple perspectives (human, cultural, social, economic ...) from which to view the city that shaped the twentieth century. [New York in Photobooks] is the catalogue of a traveling exhibition curated by Horacio Fernández, who is also the editor of the book: a collaborative effort in which, in addition to the many images, there are texts by numerous pho-tography scholars"--Publisher's website.