The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. Founded in 1851, the newspaper has won 95 Pulitzer prizes, more than any other newspaper. David W. Dunlap has covered New York City s infrastructure, architecture, engineering, landmarks, public spaces, and transportation for The New York Times since 1981. His reporting since 2003 has concentrated on the redevelopment of the World Trade Centre. He also serves as the keeper of Times history. Dunlap s books include Building Provincetown (2015) and From Abyssinian to Zion (2004).
“2019 Holiday Gift Guide Selection: [This] picture-perfect
book… [is] for anyone who lives, has lived, or wants to live
in the great metropolis."
— Publishers Weekly
“Collects 500 photos from the New York Times’s archives, creating a
historical and cultural survey of New York City.”
— Publishers Weekly Big Spring Books Selection
"[This is] what happens when you turn a bunch of talented [New York
Times] staff photographers loose in a city as visually
cacophonous as New York. They take liberties. They don’t listen to
reason. You send them to shoot a City Council news conference in
Woodside, Queens, and they come back with three teenagers on a
crumbly stoop, drinking Cokes out of long-necked bottles, or a
plastic bag stranded in a tree. Who asked for that?
Yet that’s New York, isn’t it? It’s the stuff you’re too busy to
notice, or you can’t get to because you can’t be everywhere. It’s
what idle hands do when they happen to belong to Pulitzer
Prize-winning photographers and there’s a camera on them and
nothing else to do. Did you see the reflection of that neon sign in
the flooded pothole? Click. Click click click.
If you licked these pictures they would taste like New York. Which
is why you don’t lick them.
Five hundred of these photos… are gathered in a new book
called “Only in New York,” published by Rizzoli. They cover more
than a century in the city, in sickness and in health. Mostly,
they’re glimpses of the ordinary in a city that is anything but.
Sometimes the moment is more than that."
— The New York Times Lens Blog
"Only in New York is a wonderful, quirky, poignant, funny and
often profound look at New York City. The individual photographs
are, of course, wonderful. After all, these are the photographers
for The New York Times. The differences between
photojournalism, street photography, and fine art are irrelevant
here. Every image in the book is a solid piece of work on its own.
Imagine the New York City Ballet performing The
Nutcracker at Lincoln Center. Imagine the Naked Cowboy,
children inside the crown of the Statue of Liberty, Mickey Mantle,
Yogi Berra and Casey Stengel at Shea Stadium. Imagine King Kong.
Whatever you have imagined, these photos will surprise you. Every
one of them catches a moment.
But this book is more than that. It is intentionally a series of
diptychs. That’s the thesis here: every photograph has a partner.
And in these pairings there is an act of genius. In these pairings,
in the distance between them or in ability to hold both images
simultaneously in mind, in the contrasts or ironies or
contradictions or confirmations, there is a truth about New
York.
Only in New York is a history lesson, a sociological
examination, an architectural appreciation, a tribute to sports
stars and celebrities and ordinary people. At times it’s damn
funny. At other times it’s heart wrenching. Its real power, though,
is in what you feel when holding two things together.
In other words, Only in New York is a love story." —
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