New York Love Affair
Barbara E. Cohen / Forward by Michael Cunningham - 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Hours

Fields Publishing 1st edition April 1, 2010
Hardcover 48 pages

In this photographic ode to a world-class city, the everyday yet oft-remembered sights of the Big Apple appear through the lens of manipulated, painted Polaroids. From the Apollo Theater, Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral to the Hotel Chelsea, Times Square, Zabar's Deli, corner hot dog stands, and the seemingly endless stream of taxi cabs, these intimate vignettes painted with oils to reflect the glow of the city lights graphically capture the longtime resident’s delight in the city she and so many others call home. A foreword by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and fellow New Yorker Michael Cunningham is also included.

“What Cohen offers with this collection of altered photographs is a more radical gesture than it may at first appear to be. She's insisting on New York City as a dowager queen, no longer young but all the more splendid for marching erect, in full regalia, into middle age.

Cohen's New York is simultaneously her own and a revival of a past city-or, more accurately, a revival of a past perception of a city-that glows, that shimmers, that holds within itself dazzling brightnesses and deep, deep darks. Cohen's pictures, and the city they depict, are significant beauties.“

- Michael Cunningham

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