This Hardcover Book item from Random House was reviewed on 24-Oct-2008.
Search ISBN:1400062845 offer from Abebooks or used books from Alibris. The Subway Pictures Reference Book. Classifications : Photo Essays Photography Arts & Photography Subjects Books General Photographers, A-Z Photography Arts & Photography Subjects Books General AAS Photographers, A-Z Photography Arts & Photography Subjec . Click the following link to view the cover of The Subway Pictures. Related topics: Photo Essays. Photography. Arts & Photography. Subjects. Books. General. Photographers, A-Z. Photography. Arts & Photography. Subjects. requestid: 3b8b5baf-dadf-4a29-8bc8-997db3294fda
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1) Hardcover Book The Subway Pictures by Random House. It´s a great book. A must buy for anyone interested in candid photography. Every picture tells a story and the contrast at times is amazing.¤ 2) Hardcover Book The Subway Pictures by Random House. While visiting New York City, I, too, noticed the beauty of people I saw in the subway. What I didn´t have was a courage to take pictures because I was afraid that people may not feel comfortable being taken pictures by a stranger like myself. This book is something I wish I could have done, something my dream came ture. Just take a look around while riding subway. You´ll be amazed at how beautiful people are.¤ 3) Hardcover Book The Subway Pictures by Random House. Nice pics about "true underground people".
If you want to know the "feeling" of NY´s subway, this is the book...¤ 4) Hardcover Book The Subway Pictures by Random House. These astonishing digital photographs are witty without being condescending, intimate without being impertinent, and unsentimental without being cold. As Billy Collins writes in his introduction, "These images speak of a boldness associated with reports from the front...." Peter Peter is a Czech and his pictures belong to the photography of discovery brought to New York by such Europeans as Andreas Feininger, Andre Kertesz, Rudy Burckhardt and Robert Frank.¤ 5) Hardcover Book The Subway Pictures by Random House. In The Subway Pictures, Peter Peter shares his extraordinary images of life on the move, capturing “ordinary” New Yorkers in a remarkable give-and-take with their public surroundings. As Billy Collins writes in his Foreword, “Each of these images is a visual report from underground, the testimony of an optical Virgil bringing us news of the travelers below, momentarily stopped figures in the nonstop shuttling that goes on beneath the concrete skin of the city.”
In the wake of September 11, Peter found the heart of New York City in the subterranean world through which he rode nearly every day for the next three years. “It was like being carried along on a river of whispering signs and symbols,” he writes. “Travelers suspended in contemplation by the steady rhythm of stop-and-go seemed like speechless souls from a different dimension. The scene reshuffled at each stop and every now and then the elements would slip into a visual story.”
In the seventy-seven candid color pictures culled from the thousands Peter snapped with his basic 3 megapixel camera, the magic is everywhere. Whether we are looking at a very tall man crocheting with incredible concentration, someone flamboyantly stretching on the platform, or a Jackie Collins look-alike applying makeup, the world that comes across is vibrantly human and defiantly unself-conscious. Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the opening of the fabled New York City subway system, The Subway Pictures is an unforgettable tribute to the individuality of all those who ride underground in New York, and to every urban American.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 21-Nov-2008, 14000628459781400062843, 730-210-451-841-094-8 
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