Fred W. McDarrah: New York Scenes

by Fred W. McDarrah (Photographer), Sean Wilentz (Introduction)

Overview

During his 50-year association with the Village Voice, Fred W. McDarrah (1926–2007) covered the city’s downtown scenes, producing an unmatched and encyclopedic visual record of people, movements, and events. McDarrah frequented the bars, cafés, and galleries where writers, artists, and musicians gathered, and he was welcome in the apartments and lofts of the city’s avant-garde cultural aristocracy. He captured every vital moment, from Jack Kerouac reading poetry, to Bob Dylan hanging out in Sheridan Square, to Andy Warhol filming in the Factory, to the Stonewall Riots. Through his lens, we see the legendary birth of ideas and attitudes that continue to shape the character and allure of New York today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419728976
Publisher:	Abrams
Publication date:	09/25/2018
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	1,092,021
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Sean Wilentz is the author of Bob Dylan in America (2010) and The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005), for which he won the Bancroft Prize. He is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University. Wilentz’s father and uncle were co-owners of the legendary Eighth Street Bookshop in Greenwich Village, and he grew up in the world that Fred W. McDarrah captured with his lens. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Editorial Reviews

Above all, [McDarrah] was a reporter, and he reported for duty not only at art premieres and in-crowd party scenes, but at the forefronts of the antiwar, feminist and gay liberation movements, as well as the ongoing struggle for racial justice. He made it his business to not let his photos express an opinion—except by virtue of what they documented.

The New York Times Book Review - Luc Sante