This acclaimed history of New York concentrates on the city's dark underside, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A gifted writer with a lucid yet lyrical style, Sante brings an incredible secret history to life. He writes of saloons frequented only by street urchins under the age of twelve, of waterfront hotels with ...
Now back in print--the classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in "Salon" called, "a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain."
While researching his acclaimed work of literary nonfiction, LOW LIFE, Luc Sante delved into the archives of the NYPD and found crime-scene evidence photographs dating far back into the nineteenth century. Compiled here, the selected photographs constitute a profoundly eerie work of found art, a silent meditation on history and death.
Walker Evans immortalized the New York City subway and its riders in this collection of photographs taken with a hidden camera between 1938 and 1941. Catching passengers unaware, Evans was able to document a variety of types and faces: haughty matrons, sad-eyed dreamers, blankly staring laborers, oblivious newspaper readers, lovely young girls, ...
The viewing public's image of Weegee is of the prototypical New York tabloid news photographer: tough, garrulous and on the scene, ready to cover two murders in one night. But the inventive Jewish immigrant Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), who assumed the self-mocking nickname Weegee, was also one of the most original and creative photographers of the ...
A book about the unsung heroes of popular culture: the character actors, the ones whose faces you always remember and whose names you invariable forget. It is a book full of autobiography, film buffery and Americana.
Whatever the topic and mood, these essays are a pleasure . . . deserves the broadest possible readership.Kirkus Reviews In his books (Low Life, The Factory of Facts) and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range. Kill ...
This acclaimed history of New York concentrates on the city's dark underside, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A gifted writer with a lucid yet lyrical style, Sante brings an incredible secret history to life. He writes of saloons frequented only by street urchins under the age of twelve, of waterfront hotels with ...
This volume is designed to accompany Goldin's 1996 retrospective and includes not only photographs but personal commentary by the photographer's friends.
A document of war and strife during the 1990s, this volume of photographs by the photojournalist James Nachtwey includes dramatic and shocking images of human suffering in Rwanda, Somalia, Romania, Bosnia, Chechnya and India, a well as photographs of the conflict in Kosovo. An essay by the author Luc Sante is included. The book is published to ...
Capturing the faces of the century's most notorious criminals and their shocking handiwork, "New York Noir" showcases 40 years of crime with over 130 stunning photos from the archives of New York's "Daily News."
An experimental memoir, in which the author relates the facts of his childhood and ancestry in various voices and styles, changing the course of events as it suits him, and contradicting the evidence that he supplies himself. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
In this collection of essays, a group of famous writers--including Patti Smith, John Updike, and Greil Marcus--celebrate their favorite unacknowledged actors, such as Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Dumont, And J.T. Walsh.
A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL "Novels in Three Lines" collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906--true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and ...
Abelardo Morell, author of last year's award-winning A Book of Books, makes magical camera obscura images in darkened interiors. The deceptively simple process--he blacks out all of the windows leaving just a pinhole opening in one of them--produces photographs of astonishing, complex beauty. Due to the nature of refracted light, the world ...
On Planet Earth: Travels in an Unfamiliar Land collects Jan Staller's strangely seductive photographs from locations across the United States and around the world - from abandoned factories to military test sites, from high-tech water-purification plants to heavy machinery that looks like it fell from outer space. Staller's square-format and ...
Originally published privately, under the name Johnston Smith, MAGGIE was written when Stephen Crane was 21 years old. It concerns Maggie Johnson, a Lower East Side tenement girl, who is treated brutally as a child by her alcoholic mother. She eventually escapes to her brother's friend Pete, who seduces her. Because she has dishonored herself, the ...
Richard Prince emerged in the 1980s as one of America's new, highly innovative artists who worked with the margins of American subcultures and visual debris. Highly idiosyncratic subject matter - such as one-line jokes, cartoons, cowboys ("borrowed" from the Marlboro ads) and motorcycle gangs - are central to his work. In the late 1970s Prince was ...
Rachel Whiteread's "Water Tower" began in 1994 with an invitation by New York's Public Art Fund to visit New York City. After almost four years of planning, on June 7, 1998, the "Water Tower" was installed on a rooftop at West Broadway and Grand in the heart of SoHo. This book documents in words and pictures all stages of producing this complex, ...
Works from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Includes 201 photographs by more than 100 photographers, among them Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Harry Callahan, and Robert Frank.
On the theme of "the Doppelganger," Cabinet collaborates with "Kabinet, a Russian journal of art and cultural theory based in Saint Petersburg. The collaborative themed section includes a comparison of American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts; Josiah McElheny on the cultural history of glass mirrors; Joseph Grigley on what trout teaches us about ...
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