The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H Gottscho 1925-1940

by Donald Albrecht

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During the late 1920s and 1930s, as photography was establishing a firmer monopoly on the visual documentation of the built landscape, architectural photographer Samuel H. Gottscho created a now-classic portrait of New York City as the quintessential modern metropolis. Silhouetting Manhattan's new skyscrapers, celebrated buildings--such as theAmerican Radiator Building and Rockefeller Center--and signature skyline with a vision uniquely his own, Gottscho carefully embraced the tenuous line between the documentary and the artistic in photography and shaped a New York City through his lens that was distinctly Gottscho, yet unquestionably New York City.
  • ISBN10 1616890150
  • ISBN13 9781616890155
  • Publish Date 20 April 2011 (first published 22 September 2005)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 4 March 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Princeton Architectural Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Language English