New York : Capital of Photography

by Max Kozloff; With contributions by Karen Levitov and Johanna Goldfeld

• ISBN13: 9780300094459
• ISBN10: 0300094450
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-04-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

For street photographers, New York has always been a city of unparalleled visual excitement, teeming with diverse people and distinctive neighborhoods. New York: Capital of Photography examines how photographers chronicled New York throughout the twentieth century, how the city changed their vision, and how their work affected ideas about New York throughout the world.

This beautifully illustrated book presents the work of both famous and lesser-known photographers, many of them Jewish. An underlying theme in this pictorial history of New York is the critical role played by Jewish sensibility. Max Kozloff begins with the development of street photography that emerged in New York in the early 1900s with a local school of photographers led by Alfred Stieglitz. Documenting work, loneliness, play, conflict, love, and spectacle, this group came to define urban perception as the characteristic visual experience of modernity. Some photographers also became social activists, observing New York's ethnic and racial diversity and focusing their lenses on newcomers and m

Table of Contents

Foreword	vi
Joan Rosenbaum
Acknowledgments	viii
Donors to the Exhibition	x
Lenders to the Exhibition	x
Introduction: Picturing the Streets of New York	1	(8)
Karen Levitov
New York: Capital of Photography	9	(70)
Max Kozloff
The Three New Yorks	9	(11)
Fallen Culture	20	(12)
The Rough and Gregarious Town	32	(14)
The Indispensable Target	46	(11)
Lights, Color, Action!	57	(12)
Jewish Sensibility and the Photography of New York	69	(10)
Plates	79	(105)
Artist Biographies	184	(12)
Johanna Goldfeld
Exhibition Checklist	196	(4)
Bibliography	200	(4)
Index	204	(2)
The Jewish Museum Board of Trustees	206