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基本説明
Pays homege to NYC's long and tumultuous history, while looking ahead to the city's future with 230 black-and-white photographs recording past and present.
Full Description
New York City in the 1970s was the setting for Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, and Saturday Night Fever, the nightmare playground for Son of Sam and The Warriors, the proving grounds for graffiti, punk, hip-hop, and all manner of other public spectacle. Musicians, artists and writers could subsist even in Manhattan, while immigrants from the world over were reinventing the city in their own image. Others, fed up with crime, filth and frustration, simply split. Fast-forward three decades and today New York can appear a glamorous metropolis, with real estate prices soaring higher than its skyscrapers. But is this fresh-scrubbed, affluent city really an improvement on its grittier and more affordable predecessor? Taking us back to the streets where eccentricity and anomie were pervasive, "New York Calling" unlocks life in the unpolished Apple, where, it seemed, anything could happen. All five boroughs the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island comprising hundreds of neighborhoods and the interlaced worlds of politics, crime, drugs, sex, and mischief, are explored with a love of the city unclouded by romance yet undimmed by cynicism.Acclaimed historian Marshall Berman and journalist Brian Berger gather here a stellar group of writers and photographers who combine their energies to weave a rich tale of struggle, excitement and wonder. John Strausbaugh explains how Uptown has taken over Downtown, as Tom Robbins examines the mayors and would-be mayors who have presided over the transformation. Margaret Morton chronicles the homeless, while Robert Atkins offers a personal view of the city's gay culture and the devastating impact of aids. Anthony Haden-Guest and John Yau offer insiders' views of the New York art world, while Brandon Stosuy and Allen Lowe recount their discoveries of the local rock and jazz scenes. Armond White and Leonard Greene approach African-American culture and civil rights from perspectives often marginalized in so-called polite conversation. Daily life in New York has its dramatic moments too.Luc Sante gives us glimpses of a city perpetually on the grift, Jean Thilmany and Philip Dray share secrets of Gotham's ethnic enclaves, Richard Meltzer walks, Jim Knipfel rides the subways, and Robert Sietsema criss-crosses the city, indefatigably tasting everything from giant Nigerian tree snails to Fujianese turtles. It's a long way from old Brooklyn to the new Times Square. But "New York Calling" reminds us of what has changed and what's been lost along the way.
Contents
Introduction - Marshall Berman PUBLIC SPACES 1. Subterranean Vaudeville - Jim Knipfel 2. From Wise Guys to Woo-Girls' - John Strausbaugh 3. There's Hope For the Bronx - C. J. Sullivan 4. My Life in Graffiti - Joe Anastasio 5. Commerce - Luc Sante 6. Staten Island: The Forgotten Borough - Steve Maluk 7. Pictures from Brooklyn - Brian Berger 8. Everyone-and-Everywhere in Queens - Kevin Walsh 9. Documenting New York's Homeless - Margaret Morton CITY LIFE 1. The Other New York Awaits its Leader - Tom Robbins 2. NYPD in Brief - Leonard Levitt 3. The Practice of Everyday Life - Jean Thilmany 4. At Least it's Not New York - Richard Meltzer 5. New York State of Crime - Tim McLoughlin 6. What Happens There Matters - Leonard Greene 7. Speaking Truth to Power - Armond White 8. I Am a Renter - Philip Dray 9. Growing up on St Mark's Place - Edmund Berrigan 2. From Stonewall to Ground Zero - Robert Atkins 3. The Sexual City - Catherine Schmitz 4. An Incomplete History of New York Galleries - John Yau 5. My Life in New York Jazz - Allen Lowe 6. Death and Transfiguration in New York Rock 7. BIG ART Inc. - Anthony Haden-Guest 8. Coffee, Cocktails and Cigarettes - Daniel Young 9. Writing New York - Meakin Armstrong 10. From Blackout to Blintzes (and Beyond) - Robert Sietsema
