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Title: New York From the Air: An Architectural Heritage by John Tauranac ISBN: 0810981912 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Starting Book for New York
Comment: I bought this book because of my adoration for the City of New York, and the beautiful picture on the front. Those looking for an in-depth history of NYC or more of a "hands-on" book, should look elsewhere. This book provides what the title suggests. It is a brief introduction to the vast world that is New York City. The photography is beautiful, although sometimes blurry at edges. There are small paragraphs explaining what you are looking at. Most of the main attractions are covered (Empire State Building, Central Park, Harlem, Greenwich Village, etc), as well as some others that I didn't know about, but had my eyes opened to. I will definitely be more prepared and educated as I go to NYC next time. The only complaint is that most of the coverage is of Manhattan, and it's attractions and not so much of the other parts of New York, as the book suggests. This was fine by me, as I was mostly interested in Manhattan anyway, but could mislead others. I would highly recommend this book if you like the city of New York, or are planning a trip there. This could be a great supplement as it gives you a different view of the city, one that you can't get just by being there. A view from the air.
Rating: 1
Summary: A disappointed New Yorker.
Comment: I would not recommend this book for anyone who hasn't lived in New York. I live here and I expected a lot more than I got. After 9/11 I wanted to get more photographic representations of New York City. What I got were inferior photographs and an uninteresting lesson in architecture. Captions to the photographs gave explanations about the design of the building which was of little value. For example the name of the developer, architect, and designer. When multiple buildings were in the picture, as was often the case, the description of each building was hard to follow. There should have been a small schematic with numbers to allow easier interpretation.
Most importantly however, the pictures were nowhere near as good as I would have hoped. Many pictures were taken at dusk and sunset hours and they came out dark. The shadows, especially of pictures in lower Manhattan are long and dilute the quality of the pictures. Many shots of the World Trade Center and their neighboring Battery Park City and WFC are pretty poor. There is an overhead shot of the WTC that is taken at dusk and the smaller buildings are invisible. No pictures were taken at night, when the city has a new life. There were no pictures of Times Square, only one picture where Madison Squeare Garden is partly in the background, no pictures of South Street Seaport (which would come out well if taking a picture of Manhattan from Brooklyn), and many of the pictures were of obscure buildings that most people don't look at.
As a native New Yorker I can appreciate seeing some of the unique buildings and architecture, but as far as a book for sights and photographs there is much to be desired. It almost seems that the photographer just took some pictures and put them together, almost haphazardly. The book was definitely not worth what I paid for it. They could have done so much more with the concept of aerial photos, but I was left disappointed.
Rating: 5
Summary: a new vision of new york
Comment: if you live in or if you love new york you must have this book that's enough
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Title: Earth From Above Revised and Expanded Edition by Yann Arthus-Bertrand ISBN: 0810934957 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: New York from the Air by Joann Padgett ISBN: 1571457984 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
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Title: Above New York: A Collection of Historical and Original Aerial Photographs of New York City by Robert Cameron, Paul Goldberger, George Plimpton ISBN: 0918684420 Publisher: Cameron & Co Pub. Date: September, 1988 List Price(USD): $29.50 |
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Title: Earth from Above: 365 Days by Yann Arthus-Bertrand ISBN: 0810914301 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: America From 500 Feet! by Bill Fortney, Ned Beatty, Dr. Charles Stanley ISBN: 1559717858 Publisher: NorthWord Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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