Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Albrecht, Donald.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Museum of the City of New York and Princeton Architectural Press, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971.

Description

224 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

"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

Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940

Subjects

• Exhibition, pictorial works
• Exhibition catalogs
• Photograph collections > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
• Museum of the City of New York Photograph collections > Exhibitions
• Gottscho, Samuel H (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971 > Exhibitions
• New York (N.Y.) > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Architectural photography > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition, pictorial works
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition, pictorial works.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of the City of New York in 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 221) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1568985622 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005005015

OCLC

• 58432110
• SCSB-11912577

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library