Harvey Wang's New York

by Harvey Wang

These beautiful and often poignant portraits show us men and women in vanishing jobs and professions. As machines and electronics take over, as gentrification or changes in customs occur, a way of life disappears. But Harvey Wang was able to document these lives before it was too late. The photographs and descriptions will entertain and inform us all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393306925
• ISBN13: 9780393306927
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A little gem...

"(Harvey Wang's New York is) a little gem that celebrates the obscure New Yorkers who represent the city's diversity..." -Entertainment Weekly."Wang's photos are direct, arresting, even soulful, and his character's stories are surprisingly poignant...No matter how many millions of stories are in the Naked City, these are sure to linger in your mind." - Los Angeles Times .`I can conceive of Harvey Wang's New York as readily as Liebling's, Walt Whitman's or Edith Wharton's...(the book is the product ) of a man who, like Balzac, intuitively understands the primacy of work in the lives of working people." -Albany Sunday Times Union.