I See a City: Todd Webb's New York

An amazing collection of photographs of pre and postwar New York City. If you like Weegee and Vivian Maier's Work you will love this!

Great images allow you to time travel to pre modern New York.

Great book, awesome images, well worth the price!

Really awesome photos.

Wonderful photos and the printing is very nice.The only thing I do not like is when a photo is spread across two pages.

Fabulous Book. It absolutely captures the soul and humanity of post WWII New York City! ;-})

Gave to my son who is photojournalist who enjoyed the craft of Todd Webb,

Beautiful city work.

The Big Apple delivers yet again some rich pickings in the best Photo League style of busy street photography. Todd Webb (1905-2000) took most of the book's pictures during 1945/6, when he returned to the city after active service in the South Pacific. Many of the 167 photos capture the working class street environment, especially straight on shots of houses or store fronts with windows full of signs and products which sometimes spill out onto the pavement.Pages four and five has an eight exposure shot of Sixth Avenue between 43 and 44 Streets (part of it is on the cover) the exposures were joined together to create a stunning wide photo. I particularly liked the many photos that included lettering and Webb seems to have sought locations with signs, rather reminiscent of the FSA photos from the Depression years, in fact there aren't too many photos that don't have some sort of lettering within the frame. The editors have included a few interesting architectural shots of New York including row houses with skyscrapers rising behind them, the Empire State at night and the Brooklyn Bridge.The first pages have an illustrated essay by Sean Corcoran about Webb's life and during the late forties he was friends with several photographers of the period: Berenice Abbot; Harry Callahan; Ansel Adams; Alfred Stieglitz; Gordon Parks; Helen Levitt and Lisette Model. Daniel Okrent contributes an essay about changes in the city shown in the photos and today.This is a good looking book with a lovely matt art paper for the two hundred screen printing which reveals, once again that the big Apple is a mythic city for photographers.

Anyone either interested in the work of photographers like Walker Evans or Atget or who has a fascination for post WW2 New York needs to get this book. Was only vaguely familiar with Todd Webb's name before, am now searching the web for more of his images. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

A great book with beautiful pictures of New York

A superbly produced book on Todd Webb's photographs of New York in the 1940s and 1950s, which standards comparison with and in many ways complements that of his friend and mentor Berenice Abbott. A gem of a book.

Eine sehr gute Ergänzung zu den besten Fotobänden der grossen Fotografen die sich des Themas New York angenommen haben. Die Ausstattung ist besonders im Hinblick auf den Preis recht gut. Ein Detail, das mir sehr gut gefällt: Das Hardcover des Buches bildet den Schutzumschlag ab. Selbst für New York Fotofreaks birgt dieser Band noch Neues. Zu Unrecht waren die New York Fotos Todd Webb's unbekannter als etwa die von Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans u.a. .