Tod Papageorge: War & Peace in New York: Photographs 1966-1970

The street life and political tensions of Tod Papageorge’s late 1960s New York, in a two-volume clothbound presentation

This publication comprises two books of pictures Papageorge made after moving to Manhattan as a young man. As different as they are from one another—each book advances a distinct argument supporting Papageorge’s belief in photographic “fiction-making”—together they amount to a comprehensive portrait of an uneasy city during a grim, fevered time.

Down to the City follows (and...