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I ♥ New York —
Street Photography —
Subway Photography —
NYC Portraits — Recommended titles
by Andrew Roth, Neville Wakefield Roth Horowitz, 2002. 150pp. book dimensions: paperback, 9.5 x 7 inches, 100 tritone images.
"In 1971, Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama took a trip to New York City with Tadanori Yokoo. He stayed at the Chelsea Hotel and spent his days in The Museum of Modern Art Photography Study Center looking at pictures taken by Weegee. He shot 100 rolls of film with a half-frame camera, yielding 70 images per roll. Some of those pictures are presented here. Edited and Interview by Andrew Roth. Essay by Neville Wakefield." --book description
by Horst Hamann, Jimmy Breslin Schirmer/Mosel, 2004, 128pp. book dimensions: paperback, 14 x 12 inches, color.
by Horst Hamann teNeues. 2001, 168 pp. book dimensions: 12.1 x 13.9 inches.
by Bernd Obermann, Michael Streck teNeues, 2002. 120pp. book dimensions: paperback, 8.9 x 6.5 inches, 120 b/w images.
some photos from his book can be viewed here.
by Mitch Epstein powerHouse Books, 2001. 112pp. book dimensions: 9.6 x 12.1 inches, 64 color, 21 b/w photos.
"...Color photographs depict the commonplace, grittier sights of New York crumbling buildings, littered streets and sidewalks, graffiti-covered walls, a multicultural populace whereas the duotones are portraits of friends and colleagues. There are views taken from the intimate distance of one apartment building to another, as well as views across the city. The stark, often compelling images convey the isolation, loneliness, and tensions endemic to complex, densely packed urban locations. Unfortunately, there is no introductory essay or written statement by the photographer, two brief stanzas of poetry and the acknowledgments being the only textual material." Joan Levin for Library Journal some photos from his book, plus other photos can be viewed at his site.
by Helen Levitt powerHouse Books, 2004. 120pp. book dimensions: 8.6 x 9.5 inches, 110 tritone images.
"Foreword by Adam Gopnik. Levitt's new collection of personally-selected images, Here and There, a charming monograph featuring over ninety never-before-published photographs, including portraits of her friends James Agee and Walker Evans. The recently discovered photographs featured in Here And There represent Levitt's own favorite images selected from her immense private collection. Shot over seven decades, Here And There reveals Levitt's acute sense of how cosmetically street life has changed - and how substantially it has remained the same. The sheer determination of this inimitable photographer to walk the streets of her beloved city for this length of time and take pictures of what she sees reaffirms her unofficial status as New York City's visual poet laureate." --book description some photos from his book can be viewed at viewed here.
by Vincent Cianni New York University Press, 2004. 154pp. book dimensions: 7.8 x 9.2 '', 48 color, 140 b/w photos; dvd.
"The stunning photographs of We Skate Hardcore reveal the determination, the dreams, and the rough and tumble story of urban Latino youth coming of age in New York City. Vincent Cianni spent eight years photographing and documenting a group of Latino in-line skaters in the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Cianni weaves together images of the skaters with their own words, showing the the skaters' struggles to find a place to skate and build skate parks, and just to survive in the city.... In addition to black and white and color photos, We Skate Hardcore includes a DVD with footage of the skaters featured in the book, as well as additional photographs and an essay." --book description some photos, and video clips from his book can be viewed here.
by Jamel Shabazz powerHouse Books, 2003. 128pp. book dimensions: 10.1 x 7.1 inches.
"Commemorating New York's Stonewall Riots of June 1969, the last Sunday (and Saturday) of every June finds Greenwich Village electric with gay pride events and activity. In 1990, two young women in New York's Washington Square Park suggested that Shabazz, a documentary photographer, check it out, after he asked them where to find "drama and flava." After some initial discomfort, Shabazz began documenting the celebration annually, showing off the diversity and energy of the gay community. Moving from people in metallic outfits to those in very little at all, Shabazz captures picketers, revelers and people in love; transgender, multiracial, cross-class and totally engaged, Pride Day draws celebrants from around the world...." --Publishers Weekly
by Risa Mickenberg, Joanne Dugan (photo) Chronicle Books, 1996. 176 pp. book dimensions: 6 x 4 inches.
A Time Before Crack not yet available from amazon.com
" Once upon a time before crack, inner city communities were blighted by poverty and unemployment—but not by the drug wars that tore families apart, destroying lives with needless violence and mindless addiction. Once upon a time before crack, pride and style were as inseparable as a beatbox and mixtape, or as a pair of shoes and matching purse. Once upon a time before crack, Jamel Shabazz was on the scene, working the streets of New York City, capturing the faces and places of an era that have long since disappeared."
--book description
some photos from his book can be viewed here.
by Jamel Shabazz powerHouse Books, 2002. 128pp. book dimensions: 9.8 x 7.1 inches.
"Shabazz's photographs celebrate the "cool" style of early hip-hop culture between 1980 and 1989. ... At first viewing, the clothes and posturing seem almost ridiculous, until we remember the excesses of the 1980s. By comparing the styles and attitudes of this bygone era to contemporary hip-hop culture, Ernie Paniccioli's essay places Shabazz's photos within a historical and social context. He points out that like all fresh and honest trends, the hip-hop style has become sadly commodified and more concerned with status than substance. But in the early era presented here, the focus was never style for style's sake it was about rebellion and survival. Shabazz, who has published his photos in the Source, Vibe, and other magazines, documents his "passion for photography and his love for his people" while raising important issues of racial justice and equality. Free self-expression is communicated through hair, clothing, shoes, jewelry, and, most importantly, posturing..." --Library Journal sample images from this book can be viewed here. view more hip hop photo books.
by Michael Spano, Susan Kismaric powerHouse Books, 2002. 110pp. book dimensions: 12.3 x 10.1 inches
"Time Frames, Michael Spano's long-awaited first monograph, catalogues the artist's exploration of spatial and temporal dimensions in photography. The book is divided into five chapters: Panoramas, Grids, Portraits, Multi-Exposures, and Diptychs; each employs a distinctive technical process to provide a new way of looking at life in New York City. Panoramas (1977-1983) show interacting urbanites moving through elongated frames as the lens of an extremely wide field camera pans during exposure. Grids (1980-1990) captures eight moments on a single negative as Spano moves through a sequence of events, pre-determinedly exposing a portion of the grid every four seconds. Portraits (1984-1990) focus on individual inhabitants transformed and etched out from their settings through the solarization and blurring forms into an atmospheric world. Multi-Exposures (1985-1998) combine solarizations with multiple perspectives. These single-negative layered compositions orchestrate and compress selected intervals of time and space into one image. Diptychs (1998-1999) fuse two distinct moments on one negative where scale, focal planes, and perspectives shift and comprise a dual image of urban spaces." --book description some photos from his book can be viewed here.
by Max Kozloff, Karen Levitov, The Jewish Museum The Jewish Museum New York, 2002. 208pp. book dimensions: paperback, 12 x 9 inches, 15 color, 86 duotone images, 30 duotone illustrations
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