New York

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A world-famous photographer and the author of one of the most delightful guides to New York ever written have combined their talents in this new book to present a fresh and exciting portrait of a fabulous city. Andreas Feininger has taken a new look at New York, photographing it in all its moods and activities: in sunshine, rain, and fog; at the opera and the circus; in the parks, museums, and nightclubs. We see the garment district, Greenwich Village, Park Avenue, the waterfront, Broadway, shops and department stores, airports and the subway, old buildings coming down and new ones going up-all the color and motion of a city that is constantly growing and changing. Kate Simon's text is a lively and exciting account of life in New York as it was and as it is. She writes with keen observation, afFection, and wit of the interesting places and people of the city, of places to go to and things to do- both the well-known and the out-of-the-way ones-spicing her account with her own... Tovább

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A world-famous photographer and the author of one of the most delightful guides to New York ever written have combined their talents in this new book to present a fresh and exciting portrait of a fabulous city. Andreas Feininger has taken a new look at New York, photographing it in all its moods and activities: in sunshine, rain, and fog; at the opera and the circus; in the parks, museums, and nightclubs. We see the garment district, Greenwich Village, Park Avenue, the waterfront, Broadway, shops and department stores, airports and the subway, old buildings coming down and new ones going up-all the color and motion of a city that is constantly growing and changing. Kate Simon's text is a lively and exciting account of life in New York as it was and as it is. She writes with keen observation, afFection, and wit of the interesting places and people of the city, of places to go to and things to do- both the well-known and the out-of-the-way ones-spicing her account with her own succinct opinions and with many fascinating descriptions of New Yorkers, their origins, and their reactions to the unique experiences of life in one of the greatest cities in the world. In recounting somé of the early history of New York, Miss Simon presents, from the accounts of early reporters and diarists, stories that are sometimes tragic, frequently boisterous or hilarious, and occasionally prophetic, about the calamities, controversies, and political upheavals of the past. Following two New Yorkers, Henry and Joe, as they move through their separate paces in a day and a night in the city, Miss Simon shows us lives that are completely different yet both wholly typical of New York. In a city where you can buy anything from alligator soup to betel nuts or learn anything from playing the bagpipe to how to be lovable, there are endless things to be seen and enjoyed; Andreas Feininger and Kate Simon present, in words and pictures, all the most delightful of them. Vissza