The Eyes of the City

The Eyes of the City

Timing, skill, and talent all play an important role inÂ creating a great photograph, but the most primaryÂ element, the photographerâ€™s eye, is perhaps the mostÂ crucial. In The Eyes of the City, Richard SandlerÂ showcases decadesâ€™ worth of work, proving his eye forÂ street life rivals any of his generation.

From 1977 to just weeks before September 11, 2001,Â Richard regularly walked through the streets of BostonÂ and New York, making incisive and humorous picturesÂ that read the pulse of that time.Â After serendipitously being gifted a Leica camera inÂ 1977, Sandler shot in Boston for three productive years
and then moved back home to photograph in an edgy,Â dangerous, colicky New York City.

In the 1980s crime and crack were on the rise and theirÂ effects were socially devastating. Times Square, Harlem,Â and the East Village were seeded with hard drugs, whileÂ in Midtown Manhattan, and on Wall Street, the richÂ flaunted their furs in unprecedented numbers, and â€œgreedÂ was good.â€

In the 1990s the city underwent drastic changes to lureÂ in tourists and corporations, the result of which was rapidÂ gentrification. Rents were raised and neighborhoods wereÂ sanitized, clearing them of both crime and character.Â Throughout these turbulent and creative years SandlerÂ paced the streets with his native New Yorkerâ€™s eye forÂ compassion, irony, and unvarnished fact.

The results are presented in The Eyes of the City,Â many for the first time in print. Overtly, they capture aÂ complex time when beauty mixed with decay, yet belowÂ the picture surface, they hint at unrecognized ghosts inÂ the American psyche.
Country USA
Brand powerHouse Books
Manufacturer powerHouse Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-11-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781576877876

Country	USA
Brand	powerHouse Books
Manufacturer	powerHouse Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-11-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781576877876

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