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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
what were the previous reviewers smoking?, January 10, 2003
After reading 3 ravings reviews on this book on Amazon, I special ordered it at local [store] before making the purchase, luckily I flipped through the book before making a big mistake. Yes I can understand the significance of the 42nd street project in NY. Like alot of people, I love to sit somewhere on a weekend and people watch, guessing and pondering what each person is up to and doing at that moment. This book does NOT deliver any of that.Besides 1 page in the beginning of the book and 3 or 4 at the end, the rest of the pages are filled with face only portraits on white backdrop, so no real street scene were included. Personally I just couldn't see the purpose on that. Yes, the pictures were later enlarged and posted as posters on the wall along the street, however, as content for a book? it lacks everything that would provide a detail time, place, date, emotional state of that person at the moment the pictures were taken. I would have thought the author, as a professional photographer, could have either used selective focus or even necessary later use photoshop to add the white drop. As for the information on each individual on that day, each picture usually has less than 7 words subtext description. I am not trying to talk trash about the author or previous reviewers who seems to enjoy the book (one persons father was in the book, so the book has personal siginificance). But if you are looking to learn photography techniques, composition, or even light coffee book reading, forget it, none of that is in this book.
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