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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Other graphic art forms
Photographer and master printer Brian Young first arrived in New
York City in 1984. He witnessed all the well-known ills of '70s and
early '80s New York, finding the city slowly, haltingly recovering
from an economic depression. Industry and manufacturing jobs had
left the city, and the population continued to drain out to the
suburbs. The "crack epidemic" was on the front pages and on the
streets. Abandoned shells of burnt-out cars littered the roads and
muggings were simply a fact of daily life. Young found his camera
increasingly drawn to the subway system--one of the great social
levelers of life in New York City and, increasingly, the canvas for
an explosive profusion of graffiti. Brian Young: The Train NYC 1984
collects the photographer's quiet, black-and-white shots of the
subway from 1984, bringing a vanished New York evocatively back to
life.
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