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Brian Young: The Train NYC 1984
Brian Young
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Description for Brian Young: The Train NYC 1984
Hardcover. Num Pages: 100 pages, 80. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPN; AFJG; AJB; AJC; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 288 x 14. Weight in Grams: 778.
Photographer and master printer Brian Young first arrived in New York City in 1984. He witnessed all the well-known ills of '70s and early '80s New York, finding the city slowly, haltingly recovering from an economic depression. Industry and manufacturing jobs had left the city, and the population continued to drain out to the suburbs. The crack epidemic was on the front pages and on the streets. Abandoned shells of burnt-out cars littered the roads and muggings were simply a fact of daily life. Young found his camera increasingly drawn to the subway system--one of the great ... Read more
Photographer and master printer Brian Young first arrived in New York City in 1984. He witnessed all the well-known ills of '70s and early '80s New York, finding the city slowly, haltingly recovering from an economic depression. Industry and manufacturing jobs had left the city, and the population continued to drain out to the suburbs. The crack epidemic was on the front pages and on the streets. Abandoned shells of burnt-out cars littered the roads and muggings were simply a fact of daily life. Young found his camera increasingly drawn to the subway system--one of the great ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Damiani
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
777g
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
Bologna, Italy
ISBN
9788862084925
SKU
V9788862084925
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About Brian Young
After moving to New York in 1984 to attend classes the International Center for Photography, he began assisting Eugene Richards in the processing and printing production of materials for publication of the book Below The Line: Living Poor in America (1987). In addition to being a master printer, Brian Young has taught black-and-white photography at International Center of Photography, New ... Read more
Reviews for Brian Young: The Train NYC 1984
The Train NYC 1984 is a collection of grainy, gritty photos of straphangers (when subway cars had strap handles to hold onto) dozing underneath vodka advertisements, interspersed with verses by poets like Allen Ginsberg and Gwendolyn Brooks.
The New York Times
The New York Times