Friday, November 23, 2007
 
Book Report: New York at Night by Bill Harris (1983, 1985)
I bought this book on September 29, 2007, and as I suspected, it's better than the other city-themed picture book I've read this year, Detroit. Whereas that book focused on helicopter shots of the buildings in the city, this book covers New York at night. The text is a bit affected with first person sort of you-are-there visitations to New York City in 1983, the photos display a variety of things: people on the job in staged portraiture, buildings, streetscapes, and slice-of-life snapshots.

Of course, everyone is wearing that hair that occurred as the 70s transistioned the the 80s, and most of the buildings have bars on the windows before the renaissance of the 1990s, but it's an interesting artifact and collection of images.

With no random quotes, unless you count the introductory essays.

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