New York. Portrait of a City

Do you love New York? Of course you do! Now celebrate all the city's charisma, glamour and spunk with the stunning photography in Taschen's coffee table book 'New York. Portrait of a City,' which charts the history and many wonders of the world's greatest city. Nearly 600 pages feature the work of photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White, Ralph Gibson, Berenice Abbott, Ruth Orkin, Saul Leiter and many others.

This book presents the epic story of New York in nearly 600 pages of emotional, atmospheric photographs, from the mid-19th century to the present. This wealth of images is complemented by more than a hundred quotes and references from groundbreaking books, films, shows and songs. The city's changing fortunes are all covered, from the wild nights of the jazz era to the hedonistic disco era, from the bleak days of the Depression to the devastation of 9/11 and its aftermath, as its broken but unbroken citizens picked up where they left off.

New York's remarkable rise, reinvention and growth are not only the story of a city, but also the story of a nation. From the construction 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 squalor of Times Square; the vistas of Central Park and the crowds on Fifth Avenue. The city's streets, sidewalks, chaos, energy, ethnic diversity, culture, fashion, architecture, anger and complexity are all depicted in this kaleidoscopic

Specifications
Title: New York. Portrait of a City
Author: Reuel Golden
Publisher: TASCHEN
Size: 250 x 350 x 50 mm
Size: 560 pages
Weight: 4.21 Kg
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783836505147

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