Vintage Photography of the Big Apple

New York: Portrait of a City is a new book that reflects on some old faces in one of the world's most exciting and creative cities.
Rich Fogarty
Published on October 25, 2010

New York, Portrait of a City is a new book that reflects on some old faces in one of the world's most exciting and creative cities. The book presents "the epic story of New York on nearly 600 pages of emotional, atmospheric photographs" taken by 150 photographers, accompanied by quotes and references from relevant books, movies, shows and songs. The city's long, colourful and sometimes checkered past is depicted in vivid glory, from "the wild nights of the Jazz Age and the hedonistic disco era, to the grim days of the Depression and the devastation of 9/11 and its aftermath."

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The opening day of the Empire State Building, 1931.

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A film still from the classic 1970s movie Taxi Driver, featuring Robert De Niro and the director Martin Scorsese, 1976.

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Various jazz musicians outside the Metropole Café, the center of traditional jazz in New York, Broadway, 1960.

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The main concourse at Grand Central Terminal, 1929.

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Brooklyn Bridge View, 1950.

[Via Amusing Planet]

Published on October 25, 2010 by Rich Fogarty
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