The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940

By Donald Albrecht

Book Overview

During the late 1920s and 1930s, as photography was establishing a firmer monopoly on the visual documentation of the built landscape, architectural photographer Samuel H. Gottscho created a now-classic portrait of New York City as the quintessential modern metropolis. Silhouetting Manhattan's new skyscrapers, celebrated buildings--such as theAmerican Radiator Building and Rockefeller Center--and signature skyline with a vision uniquely his own, Gottscho carefully embraced the tenuous line between the documentary and the artistic in photography and shaped a New York City through his lens that was distinctly Gottscho, yet unquestionably New York City.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616890150
• ISBN13: 9781616890155
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary