The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives

ENcuadernación rústica

Páginas: 279

Medidas: 25 x 29 cm

Idioma: inglés

ISBN: 9780914782995

Published to coincide with an exhibition that will visit 10 sites between January 2002 and November 2004, this glorious book presents 200 black-and-white photographs culled from the enormous New York Times archives. Here are the 1950s, with all their splendor, excitement, tragedy, humor, and sadness. Here's the aftermath of a department-store fire; the construction of an overpass; Richard Nixon in Ecuador; the April 27, 1958, Walk for Peace; Lee J. Cobb as Willie Loman in Death of a Salesman; Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in a huddled meeting; American soldiers in Korea; film director Stanley Kubrick on the set of his latest picture; and much, much more. The book is divided into sections ("America in the World"; "War Hot and Cold"; "Mechanization in Command") and contains photographs both famous and rare (there are, for example, few pictures extant of the late Kubrick). In most cases the photos are accompanied by the original newspaper captions, their publication dates, and the photographers' credits. The book also includes several essays explaining how the Times photo archives operates. But, make no mistake, the photos are the raison d'etre here: this is a picture book, and an exemplary one at that, deserving of a place alongside the best work produced by the National Geographic Society and the folks at Time-Life. David Pitt

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