Photographs and Text by Danny Lyon. Aperture, 2020. 160 pp. 9¼x10½".
First published in 1969, The Destruction of Lower Manhattan is a singular, lasting document of nearly sixty acres of downtown New York architecture before it’s destruction in a wave of urban development.
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Shannon Taggart is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been exhibited and featured internationally and has been recognized by Nikon, Magnum Photos and the Inge Morath Foundation, American Photography, and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Her first monograph, SÉANCE, was published by Fulgur Press in November 2019 and was named one of TIME’s best photobooks of the year.
"Lax’s twilight interiors, anonymous figures, and celestial nightscapes invoke the supernatural. In these scenes she confronts the countryside, as if petitioning the town to give up its secrets. Trained as a cinematographer, Lax credits her ‘inexperience’ and affinity for ‘old digital’ technology as the formula of her success."—Shannon Taggart Read more
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