New book, no less expressive, is "The City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York." It’s another unusual meditation on the feel of New York City. The book consisted of two 37-foot-long drawings - one of the entire East Side of Manhattan as seenįrom the water, and one of the entire West Side - which folded neatly into one beautiful and profoundly endearing book. It was also that he "always stoodįor the underdog, and for the everyman and everywomen among us trapped in, or frustrated by, the ever more complicated nature of modern life." (Norton, $35)Īnyone who has seen Matteo Pericoli’s book, "Manhattan Unfurled" (2001), published shortly after 9/11, hasn’t forgotten it. "governmental secrecy, abuses of power, religious bigots, sexism, racism, and, always, public hypocrisy wherever and whenever it arose," Mr. It wasn’t merely that he relentlessly attacked In his introduction, the journalist Haynes Johnson expertly explains why Herblock’s cartoons still resonate. Hundreds of them are reprinted here: they are warm, witty, blunt Bush’s presidency, and along the way he won three Pulitzer Prizes for his syndicated cartoons. Herblock’s career nearly spanned the century, from the 1929 stock market crash Harry Katz, is a deft and timely reminder of why he mattered. Block - better known as Herblock - is probably, after Thomas Nast, the most important political cartoonist America has produced, and "Herblock: The Life and Work of the Great Political Cartoonist" by Haynes Johnson and Weird, vital and thrumming American document. The book is an elegiac stew of sight and sound, and a singularly Of late-night talk among the jazz men and things like snippets of William Faulkner reading from his 1932 novel "Light in August" on WYNC. Spent seven years wading through this previously unseen material, and he has curated it beautifully - giving us not just Smith’s brooding photographs, but also printing transcripts of bits Stephenson, a writer and teacher at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Crack-Up" and dozens of other oddities. Martin Luther King Jr., the first Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston fight, He also taped chunks of disembodied sound from radio and television: a speech by the Rev. Monk, Sonny Rollins, Zoot Sims and many others. It was a kind of one-man multimedia happening.įrom 1957 to 1965, Smith made roughly 40,000 pictures of the jazz players and the street life outside his window, and he rigged much of the building for sound, taping off-the-cuff performances by Thelonious Pittsburgh project became a memory, and Smith began recording the goings-on at 821 Sixth Avenue full time. But as he became obsessed with the building and the famous jazz musicians who gathered in it to play at night (and as he became increasingly addicted to alcohol and amphetamines), the He was supposed to be completing a photo essay about theĬity of Pittsburgh. How Smith, the Life magazine photographer, left his job and his family to hole up for eight years in a dilapidated building in Midtown Manhattan. The book has a forlorn and gripping story to tell, about Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965," by Sam Stephenson. The most chaotic and soulful gift book this year is, no contest, "The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W.
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