New York Exposed: Photographs from the Daily News

From Publishers Weekly
J. Edgar Hoover in a Mickey Mouse mask at the Stork Club in 1937; Salvador Dali being photographed by Girl Scouts in 1960; then U.S. attorney Rudolph Giuliani with a vial of crack he purchased during a 1986 investigation these are just a few of the scenes in New York Exposed: Photographs from the Daily News, from the newspaper that calls itself "New York's Hometown Paper." Culling the archives from its inception in 1919 to New Year's 2000, Daily News picture editor Shawn O'Sullivan has come up with 320 iconic duotone shots of everyday New York, introduced by former News editor Pete Hamill (A Drinking Life), and on view at New York's AXA Gallery from November 1 to December 29. One shot from New York Harbor includes the World Trade Center. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.


From Library Journal
From the first issue, photography was paramount to the Daily News, begat by Joseph Patterson in 1919 as the Illustrated Daily News. Four score and more years later, this New York City tabloid is still a picture paper. Veteran New York newsman Hamill's introduction offers an inverted-triangle history of the Daily News. The book then segues into a decade-by-decade gallery of photos, from the days of flash-pan photography and the roving shutterbugs who had PRESS cards tucked into the bands of sweat-stained fedoras and lugged monstrous 4 5 Speed Graphics with lightsaber flashes, through the takeover of the 35mm Nikon F in the 1960s, to the camera-does-everything shooters of today. Hamill generously and rightly bestows full journalistic credit on these photographers as equals to their reporter counterparts in nailing a story, and the gallery of 320 monochrome photos proves that sentiment beyond rebuttal. The images cover all aspects of New York City life during the last 80 years, from sports, crime, celebrities, mob rub-outs, soldiers, statesmen, fires, and fashion to the everyday working-class people who are New York's news. Each photo includes an explanatory caption and the name of the photographer. New York Exposed is a tabloid treasure that delivers the history of 20th-century Gotham through stories told in 125th of a second. Recommended. Michael Rogers, "Library Journal" Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Book Description
This wonderful collection of photographs is drawn from the unparalleled archives of the New York Daily News, the first newspaper to truly understand and use the power of photography. Spanning the years 1920 to 1999, the images here create an unforgettable and indelible portrait of New York and New Yorkers, including crammed sports stadiums, glamorous nightclubs, celebrities, and mean streets. Featuring an insightful text by best-selling author Pete Hamill, New York Exposed is an incomparable visual record of the city over eight decades-full of surprise, drama, and sheer unalloyed fun.


From the Publisher
Related Exhibition: Picture Paper: Photographs from the Archives of the New York Daily News-Museum of the City of New York: Nov. 15, 2001-Feb. 2002


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"A great photograph often reveals the city to the people who share its life." Thus does Pete Hamill introduce this marvelous collection of photographs from the unparalleled archives of the New York Daily News. This American newspaper, the first to truly understand and use the power of photography, has created an unforgettable and indelible portrait of New York and New Yorkers in pictures. Here -- spanning the last eighty years of the twentieth century -- are images that capture the heart and guts of the city: packed sports stadiums, hushed morgues, glamorous night-clubs, treacherous rooftops, and mean streets. From the famous 1927 photo of the electrocution of Ruth Snyder -- who had conspired with her corset-salesman lover to murder her husband -- taken with a hidden camera to such icons of the celebrity-crazed present as Kate Moss and Johnny Depp, pictured together at an exclusive party, the News knows what we want to see and produces photographs that give shape to our fantasies of life in the world's greatest metropolis. Including a vivid text by best-selling author Pete Hamill, who has tabloid journalism in his blood, New York Exposed is an incomparable visual record of the city over eight decades -- full of surprise, drama, and sheer unalloyed fun.


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