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The mythic city : photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940 / Donald Albrecht.

Title
  1. The mythic city : photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940 / Donald Albrecht.
Published by
  1. New York, N.Y. : Museum of the City of New York and Princeton Architectural Press, c2005.
Author
  1. Albrecht, Donald.

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Additional authors
  1. Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971.
Description
  1. 224 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
Summary
  1. "New York is arguably the first round-the-clock city - the ultimate city where day blurs into night. During the late 1920s and 1930s, as photography was establishing a firm monopoly on the visual documentation of the built landscape, architectural photographer Samuel H. Gottscho created a now-classic portrait of New York as the quintessential modern metropolis. Silhouetting Manhattan's new skyscrapers, celebrated buildings - such as the American Radiator Building and Rockefeller Center - and signature skyline with a vision uniquely his own, Gottscho carefully embraced the line between the documentary and the artistic in photography and shaped a New York through his lens that was distinctly Gottscho, yet unquestionably New York. The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940 presents the first collection of Gottscho's vision of New York as a dreamlike city of towers and as a complex and layered representation of modernity. With over 170 images from the Museum of the City of New York's Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, The Mythic City provides a window into the New York of Gottscho's era - a pivotal moment in the development of the city's ever-evolving built environment - one that glowed with a glamorous sheen, rendered by Gottscho's hand as proud, heroic, and defiantly optimistic."--BOOK JACKET.
Alternative title
  1. Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940
Subject
  1. Gottscho, Samuel H. 1875-1971 > Exhibitions
  2. Museum of the City of New York > Photograph collections > Exhibitions
  3. Architectural photography > New York > Exhibitions
  4. Photograph collections > New York > Exhibitions
  5. New York (N.Y.) > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  1. Exhibition catalogs
  2. Exhibition, pictorial works
  3. Exhibition catalogs.
  4. Exhibition, pictorial works.
Note
  1. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of the City of New York in 2005.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 221) and index.
Processing action (note)
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