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Life of the City (HC)
Edited by Sarah Hermanson Meister
Composed of works selected from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Life of the City celebrates the great and continuing tradition of photography in and about New York. Featuring work by Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Alfred Stieglitz, Weegee and many others, and including a selection of writings by notable observers of the city, the book explores the drama of New York's architecture, ranging from cavernous brick canyons and towering stone pinnacles to humble storefronts and tenements.
It captures the city's glittering lights—outdoors on the skyline and in the flash of speeding cars, indoors at a string of the urban venues where people come together. Most of all there are New Yorkers themselves—the city's bakers and builders, its politicians and policemen, its children so beautifully memorialized by Helen Levitt, its in-turned individuals who, in the photographs of Cindy Sherman, seem to be living out some cultural myth of what it means to belong in and to one of America's greatest urban centers. Includes 65 duotone illustrations.
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978-0-87070-720-9 |
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2007 |
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64 |
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Size: 7.25 x 9"
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