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Jay Maisel's New York

Name: Jay Maisel's New York
Author: Jay Maisel
ISBN: 9781552094969

by Jay Maisel (Photographer), Jay Meisel

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Overview

A master photographer's love affair with his home city

New York has been the subject for countless photographs. But few have had a feel for the city that Jay Maisel has.

Jay has been photographing New York since the '50s. His home is located far downtown, but he has shot every part of the city -- from street level, looking down from rooftops and bridges. His aerial shots are moody, poetic, amazing by turns.

This book is filled with spectacular sights -- marathon runners on bridges, sunlight and moonlight reflecting off mirror walls onto the river, the awesome mass of skyscrapers bunched against blue skies. It's also about New York's people. It has the most surprising faces and details you'll see in any book about cities, gleaned from a lifetime of being on the scene.

Jay Maisel's New York is one of the most beautiful books of the year.

Synopsis

A book of photographs by Jay Maisel, a famous award winning photographer, on his favorite city, New York. Maisel has been photographing New York since the '50s and few people have the feel for New York life that Maisel does, or his ability.

Canadian Camera

Captivating ... I can thoroughly recommend this picture book. It should be one of the books a photographer's library.

About the Author, Jay Maisel

Jay Maisel is in the Art Directors' Club Hall of Fame. He studied with Joseph Albers at Yale, and has won numerous awards, including the American Society of Media Photographers' Lifetime Achievement Award. He has created countless memorable images for advertising, editorial, and corporate communications. He lives, of course, in New York.

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Editorials

Canadian Camera

Captivating ... I can thoroughly recommend this picture book. It should be one of the books a photographer's library.

American Photo

The book's pictures capture the beauty and the terror of the City ... [with] Maisel's trademark visual wit.
— Rusell Hart

January Magazine

Instincts of a journalist and a storytellers eye, Maisel captures the beauty, ugliness and contradictions that make up New York.
— David Middleton

Vancouver Lifestyle Magazine

This is the first time these beautiful photographs have been placed in book form. Maisel's use of color and light are second to none.
— Jim Gordon

Columbus Dispatch

Images that reveal a deeper, less obvious side of the city. [Maisel] is strongest capturing seemingly insignificant details.
— Doral Chenoweth III

Antiques and the Arts Weekly

The most surprising faces and details you'll see in any book about cities, gleaned from a lifetime of being on the scene.

American Photo - Rusell Hart

The book's pictures capture the beauty and the terror of the City ... [with] Maisel's trademark visual wit.

January Magazine - David Middleton

You see complexity and balance in his often deceptively simple compositions. With the instincts of a journalist and a storytellers eye, Maisel captures the beauty, ugliness and contradictions that make up New York.

Vancouver Lifestyle Magazine - Jim Gordon

This is the first time these beautiful photographs have been placed in book form. Maisel's use of color and light are second to none.

Columbus Dispatch - Doral Chenoweth III

Images that reveal a deeper, less obvious side of the city. [Maisel] is strongest capturing seemingly insignificant details.

David Middleton

You see complexity and balance in his often deceptively simple compositions.
—(January Magazine)

Jim Gordon

Beautiful photographs ... Maisel's use of colour and light are second to none.
—(Vancouver Lifestyle Magazine)

Antiques and the Arts Weekly

The most surprising faces and details you'll see in any book about cities.

Russell Hart

The book's pictures capture the beauty and the terror of the City ... [with] Maisel's trademark visual wit.

Canadian Camera

Captivating ... I can thoroughly recommend this picture book. It should be one of the books a photographer's library.

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Maisel can best be categorized as a corporate mystic, in business for his heart and soul as well as his wallet. His photographs are equally at home in big-stakes advertising, private collections, annual reports, galleries and magazines. Still, there is no gainsaying Maisel's commitment to his craft, and this collection continues his palatable work on cities like Jerusalem and San Francisco. Maisel's clean and colorful shots run from panoramic aerial sweeps to more intimate closeups, including a head shot of Lady Liberty herself, which, predictably enough, serves as the cover shot. A dozen approaches to the skyline give way to the placid facades of gentrified East Village apartment buildings. Pigeons, cops, Gay Pride marchers, kids, ball players and hanger-outers Maisel finds on the streets round things out. Although the Brooklyn-born photographer gets about as close to New York as the average episode of Friends, his enthusiasm is palpable, and it saves the book from being just a well-catalogued calendar. (Oct. 31) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.