Weegee and Naked City
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Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, and his 1945 photography book, Naked City, with its tabloid-style images of Manhattan crime, crowds, and nightlife, overturned prevailing journalistic practices almost overnight. In this volume, art historians Anthony W. Lee and Richard Meyer bring different outlooks on photography to their discussions of Weegee. Meyer looks at(...)
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April 2008, Berkeley, Los Ageles, London
Weegee and Naked City
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Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, and his 1945 photography book, Naked City, with its tabloid-style images of Manhattan crime, crowds, and nightlife, overturned prevailing journalistic practices almost overnight. In this volume, art historians Anthony W. Lee and Richard Meyer bring different outlooks on photography to their discussions of Weegee. Meyer looks at Weegee's pictures before they were collected and assesses how his practice of tabloid photography was inseparable from his own lowbrow appeal. Lee paints the world of leftist journalism in 1930s and 1940s New York and shows how it shaped the photographer's vision.
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In "The World as I Found It" Alain Paiement revisits his photographic mapping of the building at 5012 Boulevard Saint-Laurent in Montréal, the building where he has lived and worked for over ten years. Entitled "Parages(Vicinity) 2002", this work was originally presented as an installation of multiple suspended banners, first at Galerie de l'UQAM in Montréal, and later at(...)
January 2003, New York
Alain Paiement : the world as I found it
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In "The World as I Found It" Alain Paiement revisits his photographic mapping of the building at 5012 Boulevard Saint-Laurent in Montréal, the building where he has lived and worked for over ten years. Entitled "Parages(Vicinity) 2002", this work was originally presented as an installation of multiple suspended banners, first at Galerie de l'UQAM in Montréal, and later at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York. The book is formatted like a travel guide. The images presented are signposts to "Parages", marking a number of points of interest. Included with the book is a map that presents "Parages" in its entirety.
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En plus de 280 entrées, cette ABCdaire de l'architecture offre un panorama des principaux protagonistes au coeur de la création de l'espace moderne. Chaque architecte marquant du XIXe au XXIe siècle est présenté à travers un portrait, une courte biographie et une description de son oeuvre la plus importante. Comme lors d'une visite guidée privée à travers l'architecture(...)
L'architecture moderne de A à Z
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En plus de 280 entrées, cette ABCdaire de l'architecture offre un panorama des principaux protagonistes au coeur de la création de l'espace moderne. Chaque architecte marquant du XIXe au XXIe siècle est présenté à travers un portrait, une courte biographie et une description de son oeuvre la plus importante. Comme lors d'une visite guidée privée à travers l'architecture mondiale, vous voyagerez des gratte-ciel de Manhattan à une salle de concert au Japon, du palais Güell de Gaudi à Barcelone jusqu'au centre sportif et culturel de Lina Bo Bardi, construit dans un ancien site industriel de Sao Paulo.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates accompanies the largest exhibition of the artist’s work in New York to date, held at The Shed in fall 2019 as part of the arts space’s opening season. Presenting more than 130 works, this comprehensive publication, presented in an embossed slipcase, spans the 50-year career of the path-breaking artist dubbed “the queen of land art”(...)
Agnes Denes: Absolutes and intermediates
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Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates accompanies the largest exhibition of the artist’s work in New York to date, held at The Shed in fall 2019 as part of the arts space’s opening season. Presenting more than 130 works, this comprehensive publication, presented in an embossed slipcase, spans the 50-year career of the path-breaking artist dubbed “the queen of land art” by the New York Times, famed for her iconic Wheatfield—A Confrontation (1982), for which she planted a two-acre wheatfield in Lower Manhattan on the Battery Park Landfill, in the shadow of the then recently erected Twin Towers.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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A story of the ’70s: when six New York ex-gangsters met Buckminster Fuller and built a geodesic dome. In 1970 a meeting took place in an empty loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan between R. Buckminster Fuller, the revolutionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, and six ex-gang members who called themselves “CHARAS.” After a few hours, they found themselves(...)
Charas: the improbable dome builders
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A story of the ’70s: when six New York ex-gangsters met Buckminster Fuller and built a geodesic dome. In 1970 a meeting took place in an empty loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan between R. Buckminster Fuller, the revolutionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, and six ex-gang members who called themselves “CHARAS.” After a few hours, they found themselves having an earnest and important conversation, and the young men of CHARAS decided to begin implementing Bucky’s ideas. This edition also includes a new interview with Michael Ben-Eli looking back on the project four decades later.
Architecture Monographs
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The photographs in ''New York in the 1970s'' capture the essence of a city in a way best described as "place portraiture." Trager's images present the architecture of Manhattan with time-defiant clarity and beauty. Although Trager selected his subjects for aesthetic and visual reasons-rather than from an historical or documentary point of view-with the passage of time his(...)
Philip Trager : New York in the 1970s
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The photographs in ''New York in the 1970s'' capture the essence of a city in a way best described as "place portraiture." Trager's images present the architecture of Manhattan with time-defiant clarity and beauty. Although Trager selected his subjects for aesthetic and visual reasons-rather than from an historical or documentary point of view-with the passage of time his distinctly imaginative photographs have also acquired value as historical documents. The negatives for the images in this book, only recently rediscovered, had originally been archived for printing but Trager began other projects before any prints were made.
Photography monographs
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Cities today have become portfolios of investment properties with token patches of green. The cost to live in a fortress-like luxury housing complex in London or Manhattan is so high that most of us can’t afford it. As the masses move to the suburbs, the construction industry responds by churning out clusters of the same barracks-style row houses, ensuring that, there(...)
Living complex: from zombie city to the New Communal
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Cities today have become portfolios of investment properties with token patches of green. The cost to live in a fortress-like luxury housing complex in London or Manhattan is so high that most of us can’t afford it. As the masses move to the suburbs, the construction industry responds by churning out clusters of the same barracks-style row houses, ensuring that, there too, one can live in utmost privacy and security. But what do these buildings say about us? Do they have anything to do with the way in which most people actually want to live?
Urban Theory
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Since March 2000, photographer Joel Sternfeld has been documenting the abandoned elevated railway, the High Line, which runs down the West Side of Manhattan. Sometimes a river of grass, sometimes more like wheat fields of Canada, this unique ruin permits contemplation of nature, and of cityscape. Walking the path of this true time landscape, experiencing the seasons as(...)
Joel Sternfeld, walking the high line
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Since March 2000, photographer Joel Sternfeld has been documenting the abandoned elevated railway, the High Line, which runs down the West Side of Manhattan. Sometimes a river of grass, sometimes more like wheat fields of Canada, this unique ruin permits contemplation of nature, and of cityscape. Walking the path of this true time landscape, experiencing the seasons as they unfold in a ribbon within the vertical architectural landscape of New York City, Sternfeld has created a suite of images marked by quiet grace and formal rigor. In this book, as in all of his work, landscape is read as a social and cultural indicator.
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Millions of people in New York and New Jersey consider the Hudson River as familiar as their own backyard yet only have a superficial knowledge of the landscape and land use of this river's waterfront. This book deepens readers' understanding with an aerial portrait of the river’s shores from the Battery, at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, to the river's origin near(...)
Up river: man-made sites of interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy
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Millions of people in New York and New Jersey consider the Hudson River as familiar as their own backyard yet only have a superficial knowledge of the landscape and land use of this river's waterfront. This book deepens readers' understanding with an aerial portrait of the river’s shores from the Battery, at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, to the river's origin near Albany. Focusing on man-made sites rarely seen by those who travel along the river’s banks — some of which can only be seen aerially — the book showcases the shore area’s vanishing (or vanished) avenues, prisons, power plants, quarries, parks, condos, and redevelopments.
Green Architecture
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"The works: anatomy of a city" offers a cross section of this hidden infrastructure, using beautiful, innovative graphic images combined with short, clear text explanations to answer all the questions about the way things work in a modern city. It describes the technologies that keep the city functioning, as well as the people who support them-the pilots that bring the(...)
The works : anatomy of a city
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"The works: anatomy of a city" offers a cross section of this hidden infrastructure, using beautiful, innovative graphic images combined with short, clear text explanations to answer all the questions about the way things work in a modern city. It describes the technologies that keep the city functioning, as well as the people who support them-the pilots that bring the ships in over the Narrows sandbar, the sandhogs who are currently digging the third water tunnel under Manhattan, the television engineer who scales the Empire State Building's antenna for routine maintenance, the electrical wizards who maintain the century-old system that delivers power to subways.
Urban Theory