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Urban Treasures

The Found Art of New York City
Brief Description
Urban Treasures by Barton Lewis celebrates the City's rich visual tapestry through photographs of street and subway surfaces transformed by human hand and organic decay. The book's images of torn posters on buildings, construction fences, subway panels, and doors and mailboxes covered with stickers and graffiti... Read More
Format: Hardback
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Urban Treasures by Barton Lewis celebrates the City's rich visual tapestry through photographs of street and subway surfaces transformed by human hand and organic decay.

The book's images of torn posters on buildings, construction fences, subway panels, and doors and mailboxes covered with stickers and graffiti remind us that art is all around us, as much a way of seeing as objects to behold.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781954119406

Publisher: Daylight Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 September 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Daylight Books

Illustration: Color Photographs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 228.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 112

About the Author

Barton Lewis

is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and photographer whose work centers around features and fixtures of the street and subway transformed by street artists and organic decay. His work has been featured in the The Harvard Business Review, and exhibited in spaces such as Gallery 85, in the lobby of Google's New York headquarters. His work has been shown in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Szczecin, Poland and elsewhere in the US and Europe.

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