New York State of Mind

English

ISBN: 1576874087

EAN: 9781576874080

Category: Travel / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA)/Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General/

Publisher: powerHouse Cultural Entertainment, Incorporated

Release Date: 10/30/2011

Synopsis: In 1975, New York City was bankrupt. Crime was at an all-time high, street muggings were commonplace, buildings were crumbling, entire neighborhoods were abandoned by landlords as residents fled to the suburbs, and the federal government couldnrst care less. Nevertheless, intrepid documentary photographer Martha Cooper was inexorably drawn to this embattled but irresistible urban mecca. Moving from the quiet shores of Narragansett, Rhode Island, Cooper fell in love with lawless New York, where the citizens reveled in the anything goes atmosphere and prided themselves on their survival strategies. She zipped around the city in a beat-up Honda Civic with no qualms about making U turns to shoot a quick photo or double-park whenever, wherever. Her friends complained that she drove like a cabbie and Cooper took that as a supreme compliment. In 1977, Cooper landed a staff position at theNew York Post, and for the next three years she canvassed the city daily, shooting every kind of assignment imaginable. From blizzards to beaches, rooftops to Central Park, Cooperrss photographs, collected here for the first time, reveal the trueNew York State of Mind: one of unstoppable optimism and unflappable endurance in the face of any situation.

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New York State of Mind

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.6 inches

Width: 8.3 inches

Length: 9.48 inches

Weight: 23.07 oz

Pages: 96