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| Invisible New York: The Hidden Infrastructure of the City (Creating the North American Landscape) |
| By : Stanley Greenberg (Photographer), Thomas H. Garver (Intro.) |
There are many surprises among the 53 black-and-white photographs in Stanley Greenberg's hymn to the hum of the city that never sleeps. There is a revealing shot of the roof structure above the curved vault of Grand Central Station's night-sky ceiling that shows where those light bulbs are screwed in to form the delicate constellations commuters see every day. The anchorages of several city bridges--the chambers where the powerful cables that hold up the roadways are fastened down--are exposed to view, peeling paint, trash, and all. There is a gleaming shot of a working Con Edison turbine and a cluttered view of a derelict power station at Floyd Bennett Field, the city's first municipally owned commercial airport...
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr List Price: 36.00 Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0 
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