The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940

New York is arguably the first round-the-clock city--the ultimate city where day blurs into night. During the late 1920s and 1930s, as photography was establishing a firm monopoly on the visual documentation of the built landscape, photographer Samuel H. Gottscho created a now-classic portrait of New York as the quintessential modern metropolis. With over 170 images from the Museum of the City of New York's Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, The Mythic City provides a window into the New York of Gottscho's era--a pivotal moment in the development of the city's ever-evolving built environment--one that glowed with a glamorous sheen, rendered by Gottcho's hand as proud, heroic, and defiantly optimistic. Catalog of the exhibition, "The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925 - 1940" (Nov 1, 2005 through Feb 20, 2006). Paperback

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