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Elliott Erwitt's glimpses of New York City are sometimes gritty, sometimes elegant, yet always true to life. His monochromatic tribute to the Big Apple contains all the shadings of this vital metropolis. Capturing the true diversity that makes this city great, this selection of images spans Erwitt's career, including many previously unseen works from the '50s and '60s. It is a memorable tribute to a great city and a reflection of a great photographer's genius. Born in Paris in 1928, Elliott Erwitt arrived in the U.S. in the late 1930s. Establishing himself in the '40s and '50s as a leading magazine photographer, he joined the prestigious Magnum agency in 1953. In addition to his work in magazines, he achieved great success as an advertising photographer and filmmaker. He currently lives in New York City.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Erwitt is well known for capturing that chance shot that turns out to be a classic and some in this NYC selection bear this out. The 105 photos (plus a page with sixteen portraits) reveal the bustle and quiet moments in the city. Nearly all have people in the frame on any average day from 1946 to 2001. Some are really standout photos with subject matter and compositions that grab you but I found that overall there aren't too many of these and some unfortunately don't really warrant a second look.
There is a problem though with the book's format that doesn't do the photos any favors, so three stars. The fourteen inch deep pages have most of the images bleeding off the edge so this means that where there are two on a spread a thick margin is used in the book's center to stop the photos butting into each other. There are twenty-six spread images which makes them very grainy because of the huge enlargement. All this is rather thrown into focus because there are twenty-four spreads with one photo a page and generous margins as one would expect in a quality art photo book. If only all the pages had this look it would have enhanced the work no end. I understand that the publisher's have another same size Erwitt book ('Personal best') that has the same awkward format problem as this one. The design suggests one of those city tourist photo titles sold at airport bookshops.
'New York' had its moments for me but I was expecting more and certainly a more sympathetic presentation. Andreas Feininger's 'New York in the Forties' (ISBN 9780486235851) has 162 photos and despite being some decades ago really does a much better job of capturing the beat of the city from Coney Island to the Rockefeller Center.
There is a problem though with the book's format that doesn't do the photos any favors, so three stars. The fourteen inch deep pages have most of the images bleeding off the edge so this means that where there are two on a spread a thick margin is used in the book's center to stop the photos butting into each other. There are twenty-six spread images which makes them very grainy because of the huge enlargement. All this is rather thrown into focus because there are twenty-four spreads with one photo a page and generous margins as one would expect in a quality art photo book. If only all the pages had this look it would have enhanced the work no end. I understand that the publisher's have another same size Erwitt book ('Personal best') that has the same awkward format problem as this one. The design suggests one of those city tourist photo titles sold at airport bookshops.
'New York' had its moments for me but I was expecting more and certainly a more sympathetic presentation. Andreas Feininger's 'New York in the Forties' (ISBN 9780486235851) has 162 photos and despite being some decades ago really does a much better job of capturing the beat of the city from Coney Island to the Rockefeller Center.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought this book as a present for someone who has an interest in New York and I was very pleased with it. Some beautiful Photographs and some unusual ones.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The art of the chance encounter
9 Mar 2010
Format:Hardcover
Erwitt is well known for capturing that chance shot that turns out to be a classic and some in this NYC selection bear this out. The 105 photos (plus a page with sixteen portraits) reveal the bustle and quiet moments in the city. Nearly all have people in the frame on any average day from 1946 to 2001. Some are really standout photos with subject matter and compositions that grab you but I found that overall there aren't too many of these and some unfortunately don't really warrant a second look.
There is a problem though with the book's format that doesn't do the photos any favors, so three stars. The fourteen inch deep pages have most of the images bleeding off the edge so this means that where there are two on a spread a thick white margin is used in the book's center to stop the photos butting into each other. There are twenty-six full spread images which makes them very grainy because of the huge enlargement (very much like the 1995 reissue and redesign of William Klein's famous 1956 New York photo book). All this is rather thrown into focus because there are twenty-four spreads with one photo a page and generous margins as one would expect in a quality art photo book. If only all the pages had photos with margins it would have enhanced the work no end. I understand that the publisher's have another same size Erwitt book ('Personal best') that has the same awkward format problem as this one. The design suggests one of those city tourist photo titles sold at airport bookshops.
'New York' had its moments for me but I was expecting more and certainly a more sympathetic presentation. Andreas Feininger's New York in the Forties has 162 photos and despite being some decades ago really does a much better job of capturing the beat of the city from Coney Island to the Rockefeller Center.
***LOOK AT SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
There is a problem though with the book's format that doesn't do the photos any favors, so three stars. The fourteen inch deep pages have most of the images bleeding off the edge so this means that where there are two on a spread a thick white margin is used in the book's center to stop the photos butting into each other. There are twenty-six full spread images which makes them very grainy because of the huge enlargement (very much like the 1995 reissue and redesign of William Klein's famous 1956 New York photo book). All this is rather thrown into focus because there are twenty-four spreads with one photo a page and generous margins as one would expect in a quality art photo book. If only all the pages had photos with margins it would have enhanced the work no end. I understand that the publisher's have another same size Erwitt book ('Personal best') that has the same awkward format problem as this one. The design suggests one of those city tourist photo titles sold at airport bookshops.
'New York' had its moments for me but I was expecting more and certainly a more sympathetic presentation. Andreas Feininger's New York in the Forties has 162 photos and despite being some decades ago really does a much better job of capturing the beat of the city from Coney Island to the Rockefeller Center.
***LOOK AT SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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29 Mar 2010
Erwitt is to New York was Cartier Bresson was to Paris ? An interesting proposal from the foreword. But the modernity of the NY landscape gives a feeling of anonymity to the faces we meet. Thank the god of photography for letting us discover the wide variety of masks downtown people wear, and the effects industrialization, city-life, modernism have in people's eyes and looks, all things that - in my eyes - did not appear in Cartier Bresson's more classical approach of a more "provincial" town. The 2 towns are so different it makes me wonder how much of the subject defines the photographer's style. And the other way around.
Other than that, the book is a beautiful gallery of A3 and A2 black and white portraits, street silhouettes, shadows, celebrities, and so on from the post-war NY. Worth a stop. Worth the money? That'd be more subjective.
Other than that, the book is a beautiful gallery of A3 and A2 black and white portraits, street silhouettes, shadows, celebrities, and so on from the post-war NY. Worth a stop. Worth the money? That'd be more subjective.
Good one
22 Oct 2010
Format:Hardcover
Good quality of pictures
a little deception .... some pictures are split in two pages.
jim
a little deception .... some pictures are split in two pages.
jim
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