From Library Journal
As Walker Evans aged, he arrived in New York City to demonstrate some of photography's best tricks, epitomized by his candid portraits of subway riders shot through peepholes cut in newspapers he pretended to read. Evans is one of dozens of photographers in this well-designed and often surprising book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York and reveals a city full of visual excitement. The former executive editor of Artforum, Kozloff curated the show and compiled this volume of black-and-white (and some color) photographs, mostly by Jewish artists, spanning from 1898 to 2001. In technique and composition, these pictures fail to fit any studious or professional parameters. Instead, they represent a rough, immediate, and nearly accidental moment on film, the work of an exceptionally savvy and improvisational band of photographers. Weegee, Diane Arbus, Ben Shahn, Alfred Stieglitz, and others represented here have understood and pointed a camera at scenes that capture the heart of a great metropolis its random and endless gatherings of people, who are all New Yorkers. Recommended. David Bryant, New Canaan Lib., CT
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
A. D. Coleman, ArtNews
An important addition to the literature on a city that's certainly this nation's-and arguably the world's-‘capital of photography.’
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