Portrait Of New York
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: DJ - price clipped;
Through the lens and pen of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated aesthetes, Portrait of New York presents an intimate and dazzling vision of the city that never sleeps, captured at a moment when its energy, glamour, and contradictions were at their most electric. Cecil Beaton — renowned photographer, designer, and chronicler of beauty — turns his singular eye upon Manhattan's teeming streets, towering skylines, glittering social scenes, and hidden corners, composing a portrait that is as much a work of art as it is a document of a city in its prime. Beaton's signature style — precise, witty, and infused with a theatrical sense of composition — transforms New York from a mere metropolis into a living, breathing character, rendered through both stunning photography and incisive prose. His work sits comfortably alongside the great visual essays of the mid-twentieth century, offering a perspective shaped by his intimate access to high society and his unfailing instinct for the telling detail. For anyone captivated by New York's mythic allure, this volume asks an irresistible question: what does a city look like when seen through the eyes of a man who made beauty his life's work?
Author: Cecil Beaton
Format: Hardback
Published: 1948, B. T. Batsford Ltd.
Genre: Photography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: DJ - price clipped;
Through the lens and pen of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated aesthetes, Portrait of New York presents an intimate and dazzling vision of the city that never sleeps, captured at a moment when its energy, glamour, and contradictions were at their most electric. Cecil Beaton — renowned photographer, designer, and chronicler of beauty — turns his singular eye upon Manhattan's teeming streets, towering skylines, glittering social scenes, and hidden corners, composing a portrait that is as much a work of art as it is a document of a city in its prime. Beaton's signature style — precise, witty, and infused with a theatrical sense of composition — transforms New York from a mere metropolis into a living, breathing character, rendered through both stunning photography and incisive prose. His work sits comfortably alongside the great visual essays of the mid-twentieth century, offering a perspective shaped by his intimate access to high society and his unfailing instinct for the telling detail. For anyone captivated by New York's mythic allure, this volume asks an irresistible question: what does a city look like when seen through the eyes of a man who made beauty his life's work?