New York City: A Photographic Celebration [Hardcover]

Running Press (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 11, 1998

The Big Apple. Home of the Statue of Liberty and the Rockettes. From Broadway to Madison Avenue, the Hudson River to the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world. Take a photographic tour of the city and such past and present landmarks as the World Trade Center, Times Square, and Rockefeller Center. Complete with more than 100 photographs with informative captions and anecdotal quotations from some of the city's most famous residents.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Running Press (April 11, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762402849
• ISBN-13: 978-0762402847
• Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 9.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #866,182 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Seeing the sights, November 12, 2001

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Anonymus49 (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New York City: A Photographic Celebration (Hardcover)

I am a resident of New York and I have a few posters of the skyline of the city. However, after 9/11 I wanted more pictures. I've been to all of the tourist attractions and places in The City that are not so well known. This book does a good job showing the main attractions and the most famous landmarks while including some scenes that capture the typical New York. For example, there is one shot of midtown traffic (not a specific landmark, but typical of life in The City). Because New York City has so many landmarks and sights to see, it is difficult to capture all of them in a book. This book does a good job of showing the most important sights of The City from multiple and unique angles.

However, some of the pictures are disappointing. Specifically, pictures of Times Square are about 8-10 years old and it has changed significantly in that time. It was always full of billboards and advertisements, but now it is so much brighter and greater now than the way it was portrayed in the pictures. I had also expected more written information from the book about the sights. Lastly, some pictures only show parts of some of the buildings, like the public library.

Overall I have a very favorable impression of the book. The pictures are good and that's most important. Despite the afore mentioned weaknesses I recommend this book as a picture book of NYC especially in light of the price. The book was definitely worth what I paid for it. I would also recommend this book for people who have never been to NYC.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seeing The Great: Pictures of New York City, April 16, 2001

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"hayli2004" (Perrysburg, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New York City: A Photographic Celebration (Hardcover)

New York is always refered to as a tourist attraction for the United States. I have never been to this city but i've always wondered what it really looked like. Sure they show the skyline on certain television shows but they never get in-depth the way the photographer has. The book captured New York's beautiful attractions and I begun to wish i lived in NYC . I was informed intelligently on everything that the book had a picture of. As an added bonus the pictures were of very high quality.

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!!!, September 13, 2011

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tesleen - See all my reviews

This review is from: New York City: A Photographic Celebration (Hardcover)

I bought this book shortly after 9/11 and I must simply say this book has some amazing pictures. I wish I could have seen the massive splendor of the twin towers for myself.