In this collection of entrancing photographs, Rosen takes readers on a journey along the hidden edges of the world's most famous island. 141 duotone photos.
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In this collection of entrancing photographs, Rosen takes readers on a journey along the hidden edges of the world's most famous island. 141 duotone photos.
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Add this copy of Manhattan Shores: an Expedition Around Manhattan Island to cart. $32.50, new condition, Sold by Chidoc5 Rare Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Highland Park, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Thames & Hudson.
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New in New jacket. Over a period of three years, working in all seasons and kinds of weather, Laura Rosen made her way around Manhattan Island with her camera. Manhattan Shores captures a world where landscape and architecture meet in strange and wonderful combinations, a world of decay and transformation, history and neglect, beauty and desecration. Accompanied by Rosen's wryly affectionate, deeply knowledgeable text, this is a book that reveals New York City's past, present and even its future. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. Illustrated with 141 captioned duotone photographs and a fold-out map by Jack Scott..
Add this copy of Manhattan Shores: an Expedition Around Manhattan Island to cart. $67.72, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Thames & Hudson.
Add this copy of Manhattan Shores an Expedition Around Manhattan Island to cart. $2,470.00, new condition, Sold by BWS Bks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ferndale, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Thames & Hudson.
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New. 050054221X. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--160 pages, 141 duotone illus. (1 fold-out map), 4to. Description: "Laura Rosen's first book, the acclaimed Top of the City, introduced readers to an unseen world high above the streets of New York City. Now, in her entrancing new collection of photographs, she takes us on a journey along the hidden edges of the world's most famous island. Over a period of three years, working in all seasons and kinds of weather, she made her way around Manhattan Island with her camera. Manhattan Shores captures a world where landscape and architecture meet in strange and wonderful combinations, a world of decay and transformation, history and neglect, beauty and desecration. Accompanied by Rosen's wryly affectionate, deeply knowledgeable text, this is a book that reveals New York City's past, present, and even its future in a brilliant series of timeless images. Beginning just north of the George Washington Bridge and traveling clockwise through time and space, we pass the site of the last fort in Manhattan to fall to the British in the American Revolution and move through the only natural forest in Manhattan. Beneath a series of glowering industrial-age bridges we find the U. S. Ship Canal, the project that cut off a piece of Manhattan and attached it to the Bronx. We discover old boathouses and derelict boats moldering in the mud of the Harlem River. Sweeping down along the East River we come to the esplanades, and discover private gardens and hidden parks. We pass through Lower Manhattan, where gleaming financial-district skyscrapers dwarf the antique ships of the South Street Seaport Museum, and, rounding the Battery, move uptown past decaying piers, ghosts of the island's once-vibrant waterfront economy. As we move toward our starting point, past Donald Trump's incipient Riverside South mini-city, past the high bluffs of Riverside Park and along a magnificent stretch of the Hudson River, we realize that we have been taken on a visual expedition that only a wonderful, slightly obsessed photographer could have captured. The elegant clarity of Rosen's brilliantly composed photographs have revealed an old city, at once familiar yet always in transformation and utterly new."--with a bonus offer--
