# Philip Trager: New York in the 1970s - Hardcover

by **Philip Trager** (Photographer)

The luminous and compelling photographs in _New York in the 1970s_ capture the essence of a city in a way best described as place portraiture. Trager's images present the architecture of Manhattan with time-defiant clarity and beauty. Although Trager selected his subjects for aesthetic and visual reasons-rather than from an historical or documentary point of view-with the passage of time his distinctly imaginative photographs have also acquired value as historical documents. The negatives for the images in this book, only recently rediscovered, had originally been archived for printing but Trager began other projects before any prints were made. The photographs in _New York in the 1970s_ were taken at the same time as Trager's timeless _Philip Trager: New York_, published by Wesleyan University Press in 1980, in which the photographer depicts the city as a solitary figure, always aware of the 'enveloping sky.' _New York in the 1970s_ reveals Trager's more concentrated attention to the interaction between the city's architecture and the dynamics of the street.

**Number of Pages:** 112

**Dimensions:** 0.7 x 11.6 x 10 IN

**Publication Date:** October 25, 2016

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