Another new book we received this week is John Rosenthal's Regarding Manhattan. He's a writer and photographer, and he's also a commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered". Rosenthal took the beautiful black and white photos in this book over a twenty-five year period.
I had trouble tracking down editorial reviews of this book, but here are some excerpts from what others have said about it . . .
I stumbled across this today (thanks to Victor, the-smartest-guy-I-know)...New York Photos.
There's a wonderful book of photos taken by a Chapel Hill native, John Rosenthal, called Regarding Manhattan. My buddies, The Connells, used one of Rosenthal's pictures for the cover of their first record, Darker Days. Rosenthal's work is incredible.
Erica in City Photography at Designs on You.
Every song of lament is simultaneously a song of praise; we only mourn the passing of tings we cherish. And what the images in Regarding Manhattan teach us how to cherish is the overwhelming, sometimes dangerous, yet always enlivening disorder and multiplicity of pleasure, ambition, and desire embodied in this most American of cities.
—Alan Shapiro, from the Introduction
Photographers often set out to celebrate Manhattan, but end up exploiting it instead. John Rosenthal never falls into that trap. His patient images, by turns stark, poignant, and mysterious, are always respectful, never patronizing. He loves Manhattan too much for that.
—Sy Safransky
from the publisher's website.
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