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New York Vertical

By Horst Hamann (Photographer)

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Now in an easy-to-carry format, this award-winning pictorial tribute to the world's most vertical city offers a unique introduction to New York's spectacular architecture. Using a vintage panoramic camera tilted ninety degrees, Hamann spent nearly five years painstakingly setting up shot after shot,Continue

Now in an easy-to-carry format, this award-winning pictorial tribute to the world's most vertical city offers a unique introduction to New York's spectacular architecture. Using a vintage panoramic camera tilted ninety degrees, Hamann spent nearly five years painstakingly setting up shot after shot, often finding himself balancing precariously out a window ledge, patiently waiting for the perfect lighting conditions. His stark black and white compositions lend these photographs a dramatic, often dreamlike quality, and offer unique reinterpretations of the of the world's most recognizable cityscapes. The result is an original and astonishing array of images-accompanied by quotations from some of the city's most ardent and well-known fans-that capture New York's towering presence in a way no other photographer ever has.

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  • 'New York Vertical' by Horst Hamman (photographer)

    And I agree. I admit I have a soft spot for New York. Until last May I had never been. I loved it so much I returned again less than six months later. There is no doubt that New York is special. But what makes it special is harder to define. For me i ... (read full critics)

    readingmatters published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

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  • this is new york

    No matter from which angle
    New York hits your eyes -
    they will ask for more.

    Edward C. Greenberg

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  • Once you've been in NYC you would'nt see anything else. This is one of the wittiest and cheapest ways (especially if you buy it at Strand's...) to keep the howl of the city in your pocket.

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  • English Books
  • Others 168 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 3823854739
  • ISBN-13: 9783823854739
  • Publisher: teNeues Verlag GmbH + Co KG
  • Pub date: Oct 31, 2000
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 645 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
  • In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher
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