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New York. Portrait of a City

by Reuel Golden

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New York through its streets and changing skyline

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New York through its streets and changing skyline

Bringing together landmarks, neighborhoods and public spaces, this photographic portrait frames New York as both a city and a reflection of the nation’s history. The description ranges from the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and arrivals at Ellis Island to Central Park, Coney Island and Times Square. Architecture, fashion, culture and the city’s ethnic diversity sit alongside contrasts between grandeur and hardship. The book’s organizing idea is New York as a place shaped by reinvention and by the people who make lives there, with its civic and social history considered alongside its photographic heritage.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People interested in photographic books about cities and urban life
  • Readers exploring New York’s architecture, culture and social history
  • Those interested in the city’s varied neighborhoods and communities

Themes

New York’s history and reinventionArchitecture and urban spacesCultural and ethnic diversityCity life and social contrasts

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Book overview

From the building of the Brooklyn Bridge to immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the slums of the Lower East Side to magnificent art deco skyscrapers, New York's remarkable rise, reinvention, and growth is not just the tale of a city, but the story of a nation. This beautiful book lays out the streets, sidewalks, culture, and crowds of the greatest city in the world--in all the greatness of its extremes, contradictions, energy, and attitude. With vistas of Central Park alongside Coney Island and the sleaze of Times Square, this city portrait champions the complexity and chaos of New York--its architecture, culture, fashion, and ethnic diversity. More than just a tribute to the metropolis and its civic, social, and photographic heritage, New York. Portrait of a City also 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.


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