{"product_id":"tod-papageorge-tod-papageorge-9783958298934","title":"Tod Papageorge: War \u0026 Peace in New York: Photographs 1966-1970","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe street life and political tensions of Tod Papageorge's late 1960s New York, in a two-volume clothbound presentation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis publication comprises two books of pictures Papageorge made after moving to Manhattan as a young man. As different as they are from one another--each book advances a distinct argument supporting Papageorge's belief in photographic \"fiction-making\"--together they amount to a comprehensive portrait of an uneasy city during a grim, fevered time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDown to the City\u003c\/i\u003e follows (and ironically twists) the first sentences of Plato's \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e, threading phrases from Socrates' description of a religious festival through a stream of pictures seized in Manhattan's secular streets. This novel-like flow builds the sense of a place haunted by dystopian disorder, which is amplified late in the book when the war in Vietnam takes center stage, clarifying the tensions leading to that moment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dear Common Round\u003c\/i\u003e traces a softer arc. Here the actions and exchanges that a city's people make in the streets thousands of times a day are photographically honored simply and directly, as if the style of picture-making, at least initially in the book, had reverted to the first days of hand-camera photography. This changes as the sequence progresses, but for all its increasing visual and narrative complexity, \u003ci\u003eThe Dear Common Round\u003c\/i\u003e holds true to the promise of its opening: this is a city sweet, if serious, at its heart, built to belong to and cherish. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTod Papageorge\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1940, and began photographing during his last semester of college before graduating with a degree in English literature in 1962. His work has been widely exhibited and is represented in over 30 major public collections. Steidl has published Papageorge's \u003ci\u003ePassing Through Eden: Photographs of Central Park\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eDr. Blankman's New York\u003c\/i\u003e (2018).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tod Papageorge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3958298931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783958298934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steidl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Tod Papageorge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43943959625983,"sku":"9783958298934","price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_accda7ac-b3ba-4198-bcbc-01cf71bb7b64.jpg?v=1681500986","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tod-papageorge-tod-papageorge-9783958298934","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}