New York. Portrait of a City XL

Love New York ? Of course you do. Now you can celebrate all the city's charisma, glamour, and grit with our extraordinary collection of New York photography, which traces the history and many wonders of the world's greatest city. Nearly 600 pages feature the work of photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White, Berenice Abbott, Ruth Orkin, Allen Ginsberg, and many others.

New York Soul
A photographic journey through the history of the largest city in the world

This book presents the epic history of New York in nearly 600 pages of stirring and evocative photographs, from the mid-19th century to the present day. Complementing this treasure trove of images are over a hundred quotes and references from seminal books, films, shows, and songs. The city's fluctuating fortunes are fully captured, from the wild nights of the Jazz Age to the hedonistic disco era, from the dark days of the Depression to the devastation of 9/11 and its aftermath, as its heartbroken but indomitable citizens picked up the pieces.

The extraordinary rise, reinvention, and growth of New York City is not just the story of a city, but the story of a nation, from the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge to the immigrants arriving at Ellis Island; from the slums of the Lower East Side to the magnificent Art Deco skyscrapers. The urban beach of Coney Island and the seedy Times Square; the vistas of Central Park and the crowds on Fifth Avenue. The streets, sidewalks, chaos, energy, ethnic diversity, culture, fashion, architecture, anger, and complexity of the city are all on display in this kaleidoscopic book. This is the greatest city in the world, after all, and great are its extremes, its contradictions, and its attitude.

More than just a stunning tribute to the metropolis and its civic, social, and photographic heritage, New York: Portrait of a City pays homage to the indomitable spirit of those who call themselves New Yorkers: full of hope and strength, resolute in their determination to achieve success among its glass and granite towers.

Featuring hundreds of iconic images from dozens of archives and private collections, many never before published, and the work of over 150 renowned photographers, including Victor Prevost, Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Weegee, Margaret Bourke-White, Saul Leiter, Esther Bubley, Arnold Newman, William Claxton, Ralph Gibson, Ryan McGinley, Mitch Epstein, Steve Schapiro, Marvin Newman, Joel Meyerowitz, Andreas Feininger, Charles Cushman, Joseph Rodriguez, Garry Winogrand, Larry Fink, Jamel Shabazz, Allan Tannenbaum, Bruce Davidson, Helen Levitt, Eugene de Salignac, Ruth Orkin, Joel Sternfeld, Keizo Kitajima, and many others.

The publisher and author
Reuel Golden is a former editor of the British Journal of Photography. For TASCHEN, he edited Capitol Records, Mick Rock: The Rise of David Bowie, the two Portraits of a City books on London and New York, Andy Warhol: Polaroids, The Rolling Stones, Her Majesty, and the National Geographic volumes.

New York. Portrait of a City
Hardcover, 25 x 34 cm
560 pages
English language