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I ♥ New York —
Street Photography —
Subway Photography —
NYC Portraits — Recommended titles
by Stanley Greenberg Princeton Architectural Pr, 2003. 160pp. book dimensions: 8.7 x 11.0 inches, 43 duotone images.
"The photographer/author captures sublime beauty in 43 duotone photographs of machinery, architecture, and natural features of New York City's water system, which delivers 1.3 billion gallons of water a day to 9 million people through a vast network of reservoirs, tunnels, aqueducts, and controlled lakes. Greenberg spent nine years photographing the sites, many of which were restricted after the events of September 11, 2001. An extensive introduction gives a history of the water system and provides perspective on the large scale of the engineering achievement. " --Book News
by Sarah Hermanson Meister, Michael Wesely Museum of Modern Art, 2004. 80pp. book dimensions: 10 x 13 inches, 30 duotone, 14 color images.
"In August 2001, Wesely installed specially designed cameras at several locations in and around the Museum, chosen for the views they provided of the Museum's ambitious construction and renovation project. Concluded nearly three years later, the exposures render the project's evolution in time as a dense and delicate network in space. Open Shutter accompanies an installation organized by Sarah Hermanson Meister, Associate Curator, the Department of Photography, and reproduces all of Wesely's pictures devoted to the construction of the new Museum of Modern Art as well as images from earlier projects. This publication accompanies an exhibition of Wesely's photographs on view at MoMA through early 2005." --book description
by Christopher Payne Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. 112pp. book dimensions: 8.5 x 8.5 inches
"In 1997, author Christopher Payne was introduced to the substations by an official of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Power Division. Since then, he has rushed to photograph, draw, and write the history of these amazing buildings and their machines before they are completely gone. With virtually unlimited access to the substations, he has developed an intimate bond with the buildings that most people know only in passing. His beautiful photographs and detailed drawings bring these lost treasures to life, while his illuminating text tells their fascinating story. Anyone interested in the art of industrial America or the New York subway will find this book a delight." --book description
by Joel Sternfeld, Adam Gopnik, John Stilgoe Steidl Publishing, 2002. 56pp. book dimensions: 8.8 x 10.7 inches
"Sometimes like a river of grass, sometimes like the wheat fields of the Canadian prairies, the High Line is a unique ruin that simultaneously permits contemplation of nature and the city. Since March 2000, photographer Joel Sternfeld has been documenting the abandoned elevated railway line which runs for 1.5 miles along the West Side of New York City, from 34th Street down along the edge of the Hudson River, through West Chelsea's tree-lined blocks and art galleries, and into the heart of the Meat Packing District. Walking the path of this real-time landscape, Sternfeld has created a suite of images in which the landscape is read as both a social and cultural indicator. Essays by Adam Gopnik and John Stilgoe." --book description
by Stanley Greenberg, Thomas H. Garver Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 90pp. book dimensions: 8.8 x 11.0 inches, 53 b/w photos.
"Invisible New York is a photographic exploration of the hidden and often abandoned infrastructure of New York City. Inaccessible and unknown to most New Yorkers, the structures and machinery captured in Stanley Greenberg's luminous black-and-white prints deliver the essential services that a city's inhabitants usually take for granted. Many of these vast and imposing facilities have in recent decades been neglected or fallen into disuse, whereas others remain intact and in continuous use. Greenberg's dark and poetic images document how a city works, its technological evolution since the nineteenth century, and the toll that deterioration and years of deferred maintenance can take on the soul of a city." --book description
by Melinda Hunt, Joel Sternfeld Scalo Publishers, 1998. 119pp. book dimensions: 9.8 x 11.2 inches
"Hart Island in New York Harbor has supported a cemetery, a charity hospital for women, an insane asylum, a jail, and now a cemetery again. Artists Hund and Sternfeld show it to be a secret place--a small island full of common graves, long trenches filled with pine boxes of forgotten dead--and in the process throw a meteor at people who think they know New York. Their photographs are generally brown and gray, visions of a lonely place in a lonely winter. The labor pool for the death detail is a cadre of prisoners from the city's jail at Riker's Island. These tough urban men seem softened by their work, by the finalization their digging brings to lives that never really got started. No single part of this book seems masterly--not Hunt's introductory essay, not the straightforward photographs under heavy clouds, not the images of crudely marked coffins large and small. But as a carefully collected volume, it is a moving and memorable portrayal of a secret place crammed with anonymous New Yorkers." David Bryant for Library Journal
by New York Transit Museum, Vivian Heller W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. 224pp. book dimensions: 10.3 x 8.9 inches, 175 duotone, and 40 b/w photos.
"There have been, and will be, other books on the New York City subway system, but none have had access to the wonderful photographic prints from the collections of the New York Transit Museum that are presented in this volume. Made from 8 x 10-inch glass negatives after the turn of the last century, and reproduced here in glorious duotone, over 175 images show the incredible construction techniques and details involved in creating the underground marvel we enjoy today. From "cut and cover" and deep tunneling to sinking under-river tubes and disastrous cave-ins, these photographs are nothing short of awe-inspiring. The book is accompanied by an engaging, illustrated history of the subway system. Published in honor of the New York City subway's centennial, A City Beneath Us will fascinate anyone who's ever been amazed by the gigantic undertaking that is New York City transportation." --book description
by Jerrilynn Denise Dodds, Edward Grazda powerHouse Books, 2002. 114pp. book dimensions: 11.1 x 10.6 inches
"New York Masjid: Mosques of New York is an insightful and unbiased account of a much-maligned and rapidly growing culture around the world, taken in perhaps the one place in the world where all manifestations of religious adherents live and work: New York City. The book features photographs, essays, and interviews documenting the mosques that New York’s Muslim communities have built at their center, revealing the ways these buildings reflect and create identities for Muslims within a dense and diverse urban fabric." --book description
by Jeffrey Kastner, Anne Wehr, Tom Eccles Merrell Holberton, 2004. 256pp. book dimensions: 11.0 x 9.3 inches
"Thanks to the bold vision of the Public Art Fund, for over twenty-five years New York City plazas, buildings, parks and streets have been the sites of astonishing public art installations - from Jeff Koons's gigantic puppy, made of flowering plants, in the Rockefeller Center, to Mariko Mori's dreamy spaceship ... Plop examines the diverse ways in which artists have created a participatory experience of contemporary art in public spaces, and documents the changing city and the evolution of what it means for art to be public." --book description
Oddball New York: From Avenue A to Z
by Diana Stuart The Lyons Press, 2003. 128pp. book dimensions: 11.3 x 6.3 inches
"Overlooked for nearly two centuries, New York's manhole covers are at last brought to the forefront in this book, which traces the evolution of their intricate designs and styles. Through intriguing history bites, and nearly 400 photographs, Designs Underfoot demonstrates how these mainstays of city life, once considered merely utilitarian street hardware, are actually sophisticated works of cast-iron art. A fascinating element of New York's streetscape, these decorative covers are an inspiring reflection of the creativity and attention of the foundries themselves and, sadly, a dwindling relic of New York's architectural history. Historians, design professionals, antiques collectors, and sightseers will find this an inspiring glimpse into a form of artwork nearly lost to urban renewal, and encouragement for the reintroduction of such innovative designs in civic planning." --book description
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