HERE IS NEW YORK: A DEMOCRACY OF PHOTOGRAPHS - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing

Peress, Gilles (Editor); Shulan, Michael; Traub, Charles & Contributing Photographers

ISBN 10: 3908247667 / ISBN 13: 9783908247661

Published by Zurich, Switzerland: Scalo Publishers, 2002, 2002

About this Item

1st Printing. 864 pages. Published in 2002. Memorial collection of photographs. One of the greatest photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a regular first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Gilles Peress and Yolanda Cuomo: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 10 pounds. Photographs by professional and amateur contributors. There is no text. Conceived and edited by the great photojournalist Gilles Peress. Matching hard board pictorial slipcase. Printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on September 11, 2002 to commemorate the First Anniversary of 9/11. Presents "Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs". "Bleed" photographs of New York just before, during, and after 9/11. A great city's people reflecting upon and mourning their - and America's - grave loss one year later. The exhibition attracted thousands of submissions and tens of thousands of visitors, and toured the US and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) New York and the Corcoran Gallery Washington DC. "The pictures convey an array of different responses, personal and political, to the tragedy. This book really does, in Whitman's words, contain multitudes" (Publishers Weekly). The very last image, a doublespread in color of the summit of the Twin Towers on a bright summer day, was used as the wraparound DJ design of Don DeLillo's great novel on 9/11, "Falling Man" (2007). The act of mourning and remembering, art as elegy, is the most difficult art of all. Aside from the fact that we are afraid to die, we expect our artists (and ourselves) to be heroes rather than victims, and so they (and we) fail miserably when the time comes to mourn. Yet elegy is the one necessary art, all other art is superfluous. Because we're not good at it, elegy can easily descend into bathos and sentimentality. Despite the small consolation that 9/11's evil perpetrator is dead and gone, remembering and "never forgetting" matter, and always will. An absolute "must-have" title for photography book collectors. This title is a great photography book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws (used, soiled, worn, and damaged), are in subsequent printing, or are remainder-marked (even if their dealers don't say so). This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 720 color, 160 duotone plates. "Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". A fine copy. ISBN 3908247667.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HERE IS NEW YORK: A DEMOCRACY OF PHOTOGRAPHS - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
• Publisher: Zurich, Switzerland: Scalo Publishers, 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3908247667
• ISBN 13: 9783908247661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued
• Signed: no

About this title

Synopsis

Presents a collection of photographs of the attack on the World Trade Center and the response of the people of New York that were contributed in response to an open request for pictures from all sources.

Synopsis

Here is New York was founded in response to the events of September 11, and to the flood of images that resulted from it. The idea was simple: to present images of the event by as many different people and from as many different perspectives as possible. In the days following September 11, the organisers asked for pictures and were inundated with slides, negatives, prints, and digital files from photographers of every description, not only top photojournalists and other professionals, but rescue workers, firemen, cops, school children, and amateurs of every kind. In order to underline that it was the images themselves that mattered, rather than their makers, the photographs were all digitally scanned, printed out in exactly the same format, and hung from wires without attribution nor frames in a Prince St store front. The book Here is New York will be the most comprehensive and authentic document of what occurred. It will bear witness to what seemed unimaginable, memorialize the people who perished and the rescue workers who served so heroically.

Most of all, the book will be a testimony of people speaking directly to each other about their fears, their emotions, and their desire for community. This desire is one of the strongest by-products of the horrible events of September 11th. It is also what distinguishes Here is New York from any and all other books about the event.