New York Vertical

by Horst Hamann (Photographer), Volker Skierka (Preface by)

Overview

Now in an easy-to-carry format, this award-winning pictorial tribute to the world’s most vertical city offers a unique introduction to New York’s spectacular architecture. Using a vintage panoramic camera tilted ninety degrees; Hamann spent nearly five years painstakingly setting up shot after shot, often finding himself balancing precariously out a window ledge. His stark black and white compositions lend these photographs a dramatic, often dreamlike quality, and offer unique reinterpretations of the world’s most recognizable cityscapes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783823854739
Publisher:	teNeues Publishing Company
Publication date:	10/28/2000
Series:	Photography Ser.
Edition description:	Portable format Edition
Pages:	185
Product dimensions:	4.14(w) x 8.68(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Horst Hamann has become famous during the last twenty years for his panoramic photography. His internationally

Editorial Reviews

In New York Vertical, first published in 1997, photographer Horst Hamann depicts the Big Apple in a way he felt it had never before been captured: "[N]o one," he wrote, "had yet looked at the city in a strictly vertical way." That edition, with its unusual size (it stood 19 inches high and 9 inches wide), striking images, and amusing tributes to the city (penned by everyone from Woody Allen to Thomas Zeumer) was an instant hit, despite a price tag of nearly $100. Now, an affordably priced, manageably sized edition (this one's 13-plus inches high and just over 6 inches wide) is available for those who missed out the first time around.

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