HERE IS NEW YORK: A DEMOCRACY OF PHOTOGRAPHS - Rare Pristine 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

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. 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 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 very 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 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. It is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen of the book. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws (used, soiled, worn, and damaged), are in subsequent printings, 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. (SEE ALSO OTHER GILLES PERESS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 3908247667. Seller Inventory # 16759

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.

From School Library Journal: Adult/High School-This book grew out of an exhibit and sale of photographs of the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center disaster. The exhibit began when Michael Shulan taped a photograph of the towers in a vacant Soho shop window. A friend encouraged him to post more photos and on September 25 the gallery opened for a supposed three-week run. Months and thousands of pictures later, the project included a Web site and the publication of this book. Like the show itself, this book contains pages of uncaptioned photographs, almost 1000 of the more than 5000 photos submitted by some 3000 photographers. "Anybody and everybody" brought photos; those chosen for publication were selected "to give the most coherent sense of the whole." The book opens with approximately 170 black-and-white photos; the hundreds that follow are in color. The pictures vary in composition, in viewpoint, and both in camera angle and type of equipment used. Some are macabre, some eerie, some border on the tasteless, and a few are beautiful. The book concludes with the most breathtaking and evocative piece in the entire collection-a two-page color photo of the upper reaches of the Twin Towers thrusting upward through a sea of clouds.
Dori DeSpain, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Bibliographic Details

Title: HERE IS NEW YORK: A DEMOCRACY OF PHOTOGRAPHS...
Publisher: Zurich, Switzerland: Scalo Publishers, 2002
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued
Signed: no
Edition: 1st Edition.