{"product_id":"walkers-in-the-city-deborah-dash-moore-9781501768477","title":"Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the middle of the twentieth century, good cameras became smaller and lighter, enabling street photographers to roam alleyways, ride elevated trains and subways, and stroll beaches in summertime to capture daily life with urgency and intimacy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eWalkers in the City\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the distinctive urban vision that working-class Jewish photographers produced with these new cameras on New York City's streets and in public spaces. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the experiences of and photographs by a generation of young Jewish photographers who belonged to the New York Photo League, Deborah Dash Moore offers a new perspective on New York as seen through their eyes--a cityscape of working-class people and democratizing public transit. With their cameras, they pictured Gotham's abrasive social milieu and its evanescent textures and light, creating an archive of vernacular images of city life and a distinctive tradition of street photography that would be widely imitated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalkers in the City\u003c\/i\u003e documents how these roving, imaginative New Yorkers, entranced by the medium of photography, transformed everyday sights into rousing, joyous, and poignant moments of time, creating visual poetry out of the fabric of social life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah Dash Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501768476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501768477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Three Hills\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.08h x 7.87w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/11\/2023","brand":"Deborah Dash Moore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44129230651647,"sku":"9781501768477","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e90c48ab-bddc-4808-8140-e18e1d583b06.jpg?v=1687462760","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/walkers-in-the-city-deborah-dash-moore-9781501768477","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}