The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho
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During the late 1920s and '30s, as photography was establishing a firmer monopoly on the visual documentation of the built landscape, architectural photographer Samuel H. Gottscho created a now-classic portrait of New York as the quintessential modern metropolis. Silhouetting Manhattan's new skyscrapers, celebrated buildings - such as the American Radiator Building and Rockefeller Center - and signature skyline with a vision uniquely his own, Gottscho's carefully embraced the tenuous line between the documentary and the artistic in photography and shaped a New York through his lens that was distinctly Gottscho, yet unquestionably New York. "The Mythic City: Photographs of New York" by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925 - 40, the first book on Gottscho, presents over 170 images of this great city and provides an impressive window to the New York City architecture and design of the 1930s - of individual buildings, aerial views of Manhattan at midday, or dramatic night shots.
Author: Donald Albrecht
Format: Hardback, 224 pages, 210mm x 270mm
Published: 2005, Princeton Architectural Press, United States
Genre: Photography
During the late 1920s and '30s, as photography was establishing a firmer monopoly on the visual documentation of the built landscape, architectural photographer Samuel H. Gottscho created a now-classic portrait of New York as the quintessential modern metropolis. Silhouetting Manhattan's new skyscrapers, celebrated buildings - such as the American Radiator Building and Rockefeller Center - and signature skyline with a vision uniquely his own, Gottscho's carefully embraced the tenuous line between the documentary and the artistic in photography and shaped a New York through his lens that was distinctly Gottscho, yet unquestionably New York. "The Mythic City: Photographs of New York" by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925 - 40, the first book on Gottscho, presents over 170 images of this great city and provides an impressive window to the New York City architecture and design of the 1930s - of individual buildings, aerial views of Manhattan at midday, or dramatic night shots.