{"product_id":"philip-trager-by-philip-trager-9783869308067","title":"Philip Trager","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe luminous and compelling photographs in \u003cem\u003eNew York in the 1970s\u003c\/em\u003e capture the essence of a city in a way best described as \"place portraiture.\" Trager's images present the architecture of Manhattan with time-defiant clarity and beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough Trager selected his subjects for aesthetic and visual reasons—rather than from a historical or documentary point of view—with the passage of time, his distinctly imaginative photographs have also acquired value as historical documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe negatives for the images in this book, only recently rediscovered, had originally been archived for printing, but Trager began other projects before any prints were made. The photographs in \u003cem\u003eNew York in the 1970s\u003c\/em\u003e were taken at the same time as Trager's timeless \u003cem\u003ePhilip Trager: New York\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Wesleyan University Press in 1980, in which the photographer depicts the city \"as a solitary figure, always aware of the 'enveloping sky'.\" \u003cem\u003eNew York in the 1970s\u003c\/em\u003e reveals Trager's more concentrated attention to the interaction between the city's architecture and the dynamics of the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383961469164,"sku":"9783869308067","price":100.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18039323483565.jpg?v=1773390939","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/philip-trager-by-philip-trager-9783869308067","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}