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Christopher Gray's tales of historic Gotham locales transport readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York. The architectural historian, who writes the "Streetscapes" column in The New York Times, here gathers 190 of those columns. From the Bridge Cafe (New York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary War-era Morris-Jumel(...)
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Christopher Gray's tales of historic Gotham locales transport readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York. The architectural historian, who writes the "Streetscapes" column in The New York Times, here gathers 190 of those columns. From the Bridge Cafe (New York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary War-era Morris-Jumel(...)
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New York streetscapes : tales of Manhattan's significant buildings and landmarks
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Christopher Gray's tales of historic Gotham locales transport readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York. The architectural historian, who writes the "Streetscapes" column in The New York Times, here gathers 190 of those columns. From the Bridge Cafe (New York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary War-era Morris-Jumel Mansion in upper Manhattan, Gray turns the spotlight on both obscure and familiar landmarks, and each of his essays is illustrated with at least one period photograph.
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Christopher Gray's tales of historic Gotham locales transport readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York. The architectural historian, who writes the "Streetscapes" column in The New York Times, here gathers 190 of those columns. From the Bridge Cafe (New York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary War-era Morris-Jumel Mansion in upper Manhattan, Gray turns the spotlight on both obscure and familiar landmarks, and each of his essays is illustrated with at least one period photograph.
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May 2003, New York
May 2003, New York
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Being and neonness
Being and neonness
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For most of us, the word neon conjures images of lights, colors, nightlife, and streets. It evokes the poetry of city nights. For Luis de Miranda, neon is a subject of philosophical curiosity. ''Being and Neonness'' is a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from early twentieth-century Paris to the electric, perpetually switched-on present day Manhattan. It is an(...)
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For most of us, the word neon conjures images of lights, colors, nightlife, and streets. It evokes the poetry of city nights. For Luis de Miranda, neon is a subject of philosophical curiosity. ''Being and Neonness'' is a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from early twentieth-century Paris to the electric, perpetually switched-on present day Manhattan. It is an(...)
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Being and neonness
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For most of us, the word neon conjures images of lights, colors, nightlife, and streets. It evokes the poetry of city nights. For Luis de Miranda, neon is a subject of philosophical curiosity. ''Being and Neonness'' is a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from early twentieth-century Paris to the electric, perpetually switched-on present day Manhattan. It is an inspired journey through a century of night, deciphering the halos of the past and the reflections of the present to shed light on the future.
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For most of us, the word neon conjures images of lights, colors, nightlife, and streets. It evokes the poetry of city nights. For Luis de Miranda, neon is a subject of philosophical curiosity. ''Being and Neonness'' is a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from early twentieth-century Paris to the electric, perpetually switched-on present day Manhattan. It is an inspired journey through a century of night, deciphering the halos of the past and the reflections of the present to shed light on the future.
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April 2019
April 2019
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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General Idea: Imagevirus
General Idea: Imagevirus
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In the mid-1980s, the Canadian art group General Idea created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, arranging the letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana's famous LOVE logo. This launched Imagevirus, a project of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, and exhibitions that investigated the term AIDS as both word and image, using the mechanism of viral transmission.(...)
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In the mid-1980s, the Canadian art group General Idea created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, arranging the letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana's famous LOVE logo. This launched Imagevirus, a project of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, and exhibitions that investigated the term AIDS as both word and image, using the mechanism of viral transmission.(...)
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General Idea: Imagevirus
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In the mid-1980s, the Canadian art group General Idea created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, arranging the letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana's famous LOVE logo. This launched Imagevirus, a project of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, and exhibitions that investigated the term AIDS as both word and image, using the mechanism of viral transmission. The Imagevirus spread like a virus, producing an image epidemic in urban spaces from Manhattan to Sydney. Bordowitz explores the virus as idea, as tactic, and as identity.
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In the mid-1980s, the Canadian art group General Idea created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, arranging the letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana's famous LOVE logo. This launched Imagevirus, a project of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, and exhibitions that investigated the term AIDS as both word and image, using the mechanism of viral transmission. The Imagevirus spread like a virus, producing an image epidemic in urban spaces from Manhattan to Sydney. Bordowitz explores the virus as idea, as tactic, and as identity.
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September 2010
September 2010
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Canadian art
Canadian art
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From modest chapels to majestic cathedrals, and historic synagogues to modern mosques and Buddhist temples: this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook presents 1,079 houses of worship in Manhattan and lays to rest the common perception that skyscrapers, bridges, and parks are the only defining moments in the architectural history of New York City. With his exhaustive(...)
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From modest chapels to majestic cathedrals, and historic synagogues to modern mosques and Buddhist temples: this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook presents 1,079 houses of worship in Manhattan and lays to rest the common perception that skyscrapers, bridges, and parks are the only defining moments in the architectural history of New York City. With his exhaustive(...)
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From Abyssinian to Zion : a guide to Manhattan's houses of worship
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From modest chapels to majestic cathedrals, and historic synagogues to modern mosques and Buddhist temples: this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook presents 1,079 houses of worship in Manhattan and lays to rest the common perception that skyscrapers, bridges, and parks are the only defining moments in the architectural history of New York City. With his exhaustive research of the city´s religious buildings, David W. Dunlap has revealed (and at times unearthed) an urban history that reinforces New York as a truly vibrant center of community and cultural diversity.
From Abyssinian to Zion : a guide to Manhattan's houses of worship
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From modest chapels to majestic cathedrals, and historic synagogues to modern mosques and Buddhist temples: this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook presents 1,079 houses of worship in Manhattan and lays to rest the common perception that skyscrapers, bridges, and parks are the only defining moments in the architectural history of New York City. With his exhaustive research of the city´s religious buildings, David W. Dunlap has revealed (and at times unearthed) an urban history that reinforces New York as a truly vibrant center of community and cultural diversity.
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June 2004, New York
June 2004, New York
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City Guides
City Guides
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As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he(...)
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As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he(...)
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The New York nobody knows : walking 6000 miles in the city
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As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs--an astonishing 6,000 miles.
The New York nobody knows : walking 6000 miles in the city
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As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs--an astonishing 6,000 miles.
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November 2013
November 2013
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Simon Chaput: Jantar Mantar
Simon Chaput: Jantar Mantar
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While in the process of moving his studio of 30 years from Manhattan to Miami, Chaput discovered these previously unprinted images. He realized how influential they are to his whole body of work, and an intense printing session followed in his beloved darkroom. Perfectly capturing the striking combinations of geometrical forms of the Jantar Mantar, Chaput presents(...)
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While in the process of moving his studio of 30 years from Manhattan to Miami, Chaput discovered these previously unprinted images. He realized how influential they are to his whole body of work, and an intense printing session followed in his beloved darkroom. Perfectly capturing the striking combinations of geometrical forms of the Jantar Mantar, Chaput presents(...)
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Simon Chaput: Jantar Mantar
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While in the process of moving his studio of 30 years from Manhattan to Miami, Chaput discovered these previously unprinted images. He realized how influential they are to his whole body of work, and an intense printing session followed in his beloved darkroom. Perfectly capturing the striking combinations of geometrical forms of the Jantar Mantar, Chaput presents mysterious and romantic locations where one could spend hours in visual exploration. Indeed, he spent hours waiting for the right light and angles, and for the many visitors to have left the famous Indian sites.
Simon Chaput: Jantar Mantar
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While in the process of moving his studio of 30 years from Manhattan to Miami, Chaput discovered these previously unprinted images. He realized how influential they are to his whole body of work, and an intense printing session followed in his beloved darkroom. Perfectly capturing the striking combinations of geometrical forms of the Jantar Mantar, Chaput presents mysterious and romantic locations where one could spend hours in visual exploration. Indeed, he spent hours waiting for the right light and angles, and for the many visitors to have left the famous Indian sites.
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December 2016
December 2016
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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Factory Andy Warhol
Factory Andy Warhol
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Stephen Shore a 17 ans lorsqu’il commence à fréquenter la Factory, l’atelier d’artistes créé par Andy Warhol à Manhattan. Entre 1965 et 1967, Shore y passe presque tout son temps, photographiant tous les personnages de la bande (musiciens, acteurs, peintres, écrivains) dont Edie Sedgwick, Nico et Lou Reed, sans oublier Warhol, le maître des lieux. Cet ouvrage présente une(...)
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Stephen Shore a 17 ans lorsqu’il commence à fréquenter la Factory, l’atelier d’artistes créé par Andy Warhol à Manhattan. Entre 1965 et 1967, Shore y passe presque tout son temps, photographiant tous les personnages de la bande (musiciens, acteurs, peintres, écrivains) dont Edie Sedgwick, Nico et Lou Reed, sans oublier Warhol, le maître des lieux. Cet ouvrage présente une(...)
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Factory Andy Warhol
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Stephen Shore a 17 ans lorsqu’il commence à fréquenter la Factory, l’atelier d’artistes créé par Andy Warhol à Manhattan. Entre 1965 et 1967, Shore y passe presque tout son temps, photographiant tous les personnages de la bande (musiciens, acteurs, peintres, écrivains) dont Edie Sedgwick, Nico et Lou Reed, sans oublier Warhol, le maître des lieux. Cet ouvrage présente une sélection personnelle des clichés de Shore, une vision de l’intérieur de ce lieu et de cette époque extraordinaires signée par l’un des photographes les plus emblématiques de ces dernières décennies.
Factory Andy Warhol
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Stephen Shore a 17 ans lorsqu’il commence à fréquenter la Factory, l’atelier d’artistes créé par Andy Warhol à Manhattan. Entre 1965 et 1967, Shore y passe presque tout son temps, photographiant tous les personnages de la bande (musiciens, acteurs, peintres, écrivains) dont Edie Sedgwick, Nico et Lou Reed, sans oublier Warhol, le maître des lieux. Cet ouvrage présente une sélection personnelle des clichés de Shore, une vision de l’intérieur de ce lieu et de cette époque extraordinaires signée par l’un des photographes les plus emblématiques de ces dernières décennies.
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November 2016
November 2016
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The city's end: two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of new york's destruction
The city's end: two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of new york's destruction
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From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean?(...)
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From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean?(...)
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The city's end: two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of new york's destruction
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From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean? This book is the first to investigate two centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and to provide a critical historical perspective to our understanding of the events of September 11, 2001.
The city's end: two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of new york's destruction
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From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean? This book is the first to investigate two centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and to provide a critical historical perspective to our understanding of the events of September 11, 2001.
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September 2008, New Haven & London
September 2008, New Haven & London
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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''Projects and Their Consequences'' presents fifteen key projects from leading architectural thinkers Reiser + Umemoto. This book traces thirty years of innovative, multidisciplinary investigations of form, structure, technique, and planning. Projects include large-scale studies of infrastructure for the East River Corridor and Hudson Yards areas in Manhattan and the(...)
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''Projects and Their Consequences'' presents fifteen key projects from leading architectural thinkers Reiser + Umemoto. This book traces thirty years of innovative, multidisciplinary investigations of form, structure, technique, and planning. Projects include large-scale studies of infrastructure for the East River Corridor and Hudson Yards areas in Manhattan and the(...)
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Reiser + Umemoto: projects and their consequences
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''Projects and Their Consequences'' presents fifteen key projects from leading architectural thinkers Reiser + Umemoto. This book traces thirty years of innovative, multidisciplinary investigations of form, structure, technique, and planning. Projects include large-scale studies of infrastructure for the East River Corridor and Hudson Yards areas in Manhattan and the Alishan Railway in Taiwan, as well as schemes for cultural institutions including the New Museum, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, and University of Applied Arts Vienna. Also included are "textual projects": narrative works that blur the boundaries of art and architecture.
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''Projects and Their Consequences'' presents fifteen key projects from leading architectural thinkers Reiser + Umemoto. This book traces thirty years of innovative, multidisciplinary investigations of form, structure, technique, and planning. Projects include large-scale studies of infrastructure for the East River Corridor and Hudson Yards areas in Manhattan and the Alishan Railway in Taiwan, as well as schemes for cultural institutions including the New Museum, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, and University of Applied Arts Vienna. Also included are "textual projects": narrative works that blur the boundaries of art and architecture.
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March 2019
March 2019
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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From the bustling streets of Manhattan to the shaded underside of Coney Island’s boardwalk to the expansive landscapes and open roads of the American West, ''Winogrand'' Color unveils a tender portrait of a version of the country that feels at once bygone and timeless. His snapshots of strangers exude an unparalleled sense of intimacy, offering poetic glimpses into(...)
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From the bustling streets of Manhattan to the shaded underside of Coney Island’s boardwalk to the expansive landscapes and open roads of the American West, ''Winogrand'' Color unveils a tender portrait of a version of the country that feels at once bygone and timeless. His snapshots of strangers exude an unparalleled sense of intimacy, offering poetic glimpses into(...)
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Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color
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From the bustling streets of Manhattan to the shaded underside of Coney Island’s boardwalk to the expansive landscapes and open roads of the American West, ''Winogrand'' Color unveils a tender portrait of a version of the country that feels at once bygone and timeless. His snapshots of strangers exude an unparalleled sense of intimacy, offering poetic glimpses into everyday postwar America. Presenting 150 photographs selected from the archives at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, this is the first monograph dedicated in full to Winogrand’s vivid color photography.
Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color
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From the bustling streets of Manhattan to the shaded underside of Coney Island’s boardwalk to the expansive landscapes and open roads of the American West, ''Winogrand'' Color unveils a tender portrait of a version of the country that feels at once bygone and timeless. His snapshots of strangers exude an unparalleled sense of intimacy, offering poetic glimpses into everyday postwar America. Presenting 150 photographs selected from the archives at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, this is the first monograph dedicated in full to Winogrand’s vivid color photography.
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November 2023
November 2023
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
