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Lieberman's vistas, taken from high atop New York's skyscrapers and from its bridges and boroughs, portray the world's most powerful city as we have only imagined it in our dreams. This is a gift book complete with an Introduction by Mark Helprin ("Winter's Tale") and quotes about New York by residents and visitors past and present. 55 full-color photos.
About the author
Nathaniel Lieberman is one of New York's leading architectural photographers. His photographs have been shown in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and are held in museum, corporate, and private collections in the United States and Europe. A graduate of Bard College, he has taught photography at the New School for Social Research and Parsons School of Design, and recently opened his own commercial photographic lab, Thorney Lieberman Color, Inc., "down under" the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children, and might also be found fly fishing for trout. This is his first book.
Mark Helprin is the author of
A Dove of the East & Other Stories, Ellis Island & Other Stories, the novels
Refiners Fire and
Winter's Tale, and the children's book
Swan Lake. His stories and essays have appeared in
The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, The New Criterion, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications both here and abroad. His works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Raised on the Hudson and in the British West Indies, he was educated at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford, and is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
Summary
Architectural photographer Nathaniel Lieberman depicts New York in terms of light in this collection. Taken from high on top of New York's skyscrapers and from its bridges and boroughs, these 55 vistas are accompanied by quotes about New York by a host of literary residents and visitors.
