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Part testimony, part invention, this remarkable group of pictures constitutes a visual poem to New York City. These images probe the very meaning of contemporary urban life. Brutal and humorous, narcissistic and giving, Mitch Epstein's city is a crucible of incongruities.
Epstein's unorthodox method for combining black-and-white and color pictures provides a shrewd reinvention of photographic idioms. Employing an extraordinary diversity of forms, he moves from still life to street work to portraiture to abstraction with equal mastery.
In The city, Epstein offers what would seem to be the impossible: a fresh and profound view of New York City. For him, the myth of New York cannot be separated from its reality. Here is one man's intimate view of the city, a view as surreal as it is true.
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Photographer Mitch Epstein presents b&w and color images of New York City that move from still life to street scenes, portraiture, and abstraction. Together with the views he provides of particular aspects of buildings, his focus upon the faces of people on the street or inside homes and buildings lends an unusual and personal aspect to his study o
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Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. A collection of 85 four color images of New York City taken between 1995 through 1999. A clean near fine copy in blue cloth boards and in very near fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 215757
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Unpaginated [112pp.], b/w and colour photographs. A collection of images of New York City taken between 1995 through 1999. Lightly age toned text block else fine in like Dustjacket.(BH) 7/2026. Seller Inventory # ABE-1784331758260
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. unpaginated. "a visual poem to New York City" Magnificent b&w and color photos. Seller Inventory # 006989
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