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Title: New York Then and Now by Edmund V. Gillon, Edward B. Watson ISBN: 0-486-23361-8 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Nutterzgal
Comment: A nice retrospective of New York the way it was. However, the "now" of the title is somewhat misleading as many of the "current" photos are well over 25 years old! The cover photo of 59th and Lex is a good example of the "now" photos not being up to date. The bank building depicted on the North West corner of 59th and Lexington Ave, was torn down about a decade ago and has been replaced with by the contemporary International Plaza office building. Nonetheless a nice collection of photos from all over Manhattan.
Rating: 3
Summary: The "Now" is not...
Comment: Before I hit "one click" I could not remember why I had never bought this book before. After all... I love to see the photo comparisons of the city.
But... as soon as I opened the book, I remembered why.
The book was published in 1976.
All of the "now" pictures were taken no later than 1974.
So much has changed in Manhattan since 1974... that the "now" views are unfamiliar in many circumstances.
The old photos are facinating... and the commentary interesting... but I still feel the need to take my camera out to all those sites so I can get the perspective I truly wanted.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating and Depressing
Comment: Brilliant concept: the authors found 19th-century photos of Manhattan and returned there in the late 1970s to take photos from the exact same vantage points. The side-by-side results are horrifying--what a beautiful livable city New York used to be! Life was not better 100 years ago, of course, but architecture sure was.
Dover--bless them!--has a whole series of Then & Now books on Boston, Phila., Washington, and other cities. There should be more: where's San Francisco? London? Paris? Local photogs should get snapping and send proposals to Dover Press.
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Title: Old New York in Early Photographs by Mary Black ISBN: 0486229076 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1973 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York City's History by Eric Homberger, Alice Hudson ISBN: 0805060049 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: New York Life at the Turn of the Century in Photographs by Joseph Byron ISBN: 0486248631 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1985 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: New York: Then and Now by Annette Witheridge ISBN: 1571457976 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
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Title: Lost New York, Revised and Updated Edition by Nathan Silver ISBN: 0618054758 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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