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1000 On 42nd Street
by Yolanda Cuomo (Introduction: Tibor Kalman) (Contributor: Maira Kalman) (Photographer: Neil Selkirk)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: powerHouse Books (2000-08)
ISBN: 1576870456
EAN: 9781576870457
Dewy Decimal #: 779.2
Paperback: 320 pages
SKU: T071102-2665
Condition: New
Comments: New book. New condition. Ships same day or next ina bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Customer Reviews
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face off
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-05-12
this is an excellent book for any artist who wants to explore the variety of facial anatomy and expression - a bargain.
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what were the previous reviewers smoking?
Rating  (1)
Date: 2003-01-11
6 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
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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A wonderful book.
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-08-06
1 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is perfect. i cannot think of any improvements that cd have been made. the design is perfect. the photographs are perfect. Selkirk is a marvelous portrait photographer. I loved the book. I actually came upon the project at 42nd st. by accident and thought, WHAT IS THIS? The book is wonderful to have and wonderful to give. It is a very optimistic book.
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A wonderful book.
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-08-05
4 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is perfect. i cannot think of any improvements that cd have been made. the design is perfect. the photographs are perfect. Selkirk is a marvelous portrait photographer. I loved the book. I actually came upon the project at 42nd st. by accident and thought, WHAT IS THIS? The book is wonderful to have and wonderful to give. It is a very optimistic book.
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One in a thousand! - A father's day story
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-06-01
3 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
After buying this book, turn to picture 863- Carl Schlesinger. There you will see my father's picture. This fascinating book contains 1000 pictures of people and animals who happened to walk down 42nd St. in New York on a few selected days. We serendipitously found it this past Sunday on the way to a tap dance review co-produced by my father. My 16 year old glanced at the cover in a museum gift shop, picked it up and it opened automatically to my father's picture. What an amazing coincidence...or was it? Even more amazing is that my father does remember having his picture taken, did not know what for and hadn't seen the book. Each photo has a caption stating the name,town of residence and purpose for being on 42nd St. that day. My father lives in New Jersey and was in the City because he was doing final preparations for his tap show in 1998. Out of all the days we could have been in NY and out of all the museum gift shops we could have visited, out of all the books my daughter could have chosen and out of all of the 1000 photos she could have opened to, she chose this book and that photo. Buy this book. You may find someone you know. It's great fun and will create good conversation.
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