Joel Sternfeld: Walking the High Line - Couverture rigide

Joel Sternfeld

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ISBN 10 : 3958297641 ISBN 13 : 9783958297647

Editeur : Steidl Verlag, 2023

Synopsis

All of the stars had to align for the High Line to be saved―and they did. This little book was one of those stars. - Joel Sternfeld In one of his last acts as mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani signed an order permitting the High Line, that beloved elevated railroad ruin which snaked down the west side of Manhattan, to be torn down. Everyone who had managed to climb up onto the High Line loved it: the wildflowers growing through disused tracks, the birds that followed the path north in spring, and south again in fall―that rural feeling magically flowing through the city like an unbidden river. Who didn’t love the High Line? Those who owned the land beneath it and longed to erect high-rise buildings on the site, if only the High Line wasn’t blocking their way. And so when Giuliani signed that order, the Friends of the High Line, the small community organization led by Robert Hammond and Joshua David, sprang into legal action, seeking an injunction. For over a year, Joel Sternfeld had already been photographing this hidden jewel in every season, so New Yorkers could visually climb up and see it too. In October 2001, while the rubble of the World Trade Center was still smoldering, Gerhard Steidl accepted Sternfeld’s urgent request to make a book and flew to New York: together they designed Walking the High Line and just seven weeks later it was delivered, a vision for the wildly successful park that today hosts over two million visitors a year. Now in a new edition with nine additional photos, a larger format and an updated timeline, this is the book that made walking the High Line possible.

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With nine additional photos, a larger format, and an expanded, up-to-date timeline, this is the new and revised edition of Joel SternfeldÆs Walking the High Line, which documents the overgrown elevated freight rail line above New YorkÆs West Side before it was transformed into the cherished High Line public park in 2009.

In the dark days following the September 11 attacks in New York in 2001, Joel Sternfeld came to Gerhard Steidl with the hope of quickly making a book. For the previous two years Sternfeld had been photographing the abandoned railroad and working with a group, the Friends of the High Line, that wanted to save it and turn it into a park. Powerful real estate and political interests seeking to tear it down and commercially develop the land beneath it were using the chaos of the period to rush forward their plans.

Steidl agreedùand six weeks later there were finished books in New York. It was a small volume but it played a crucial role in allowing New Yorkers to see for the first

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Steidl Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3958297641
• ISBN 13: 9783958297647
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: mail@steidl.de; mail@steidl.de; ; Düstere Straße 4; Göttingen; 37073; Allemagne