Walkers in the City - Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York (Hardcover)

In the middle of the twentieth century, good cameras became smaller and lighter, enabling street photographers to roam alleyways, ride elevated trains and subways, and stroll beaches in summertime to capture daily life with urgency and intimacy. Walkers in the City showcases the distinctive urban vision that working-class Jewish photographers produced with these new cameras on New York City's streets and in public spaces. Drawing on the experiences of and photographs by a generation of young Jewish photographers who belonged to the New York Photo League, Deborah Dash Moore offers a new perspective on New York as seen through their eyes—a cityscape of working-class people and democratizing public transit. With their cameras, they pictured Gotham's abrasive social milieu and its evanescent textures and light, creating an archive of vernacular images of city life and a distinctive tradition of street photography that would be widely imitated. Walkers in the City documents how these roving, imaginative New Yorkers, entranced by the medium of photography, transformed everyday sights into rousing, joyous, and poignant moments of time, creating visual poetry out of the fabric of social life.

General

Imprint:	Three Hills Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2023
Authors:	Deborah Dash Moore
Dimensions:	254 x 203 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-5017-6847-7
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-5017-6847-6
Barcode:	9781501768477

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