The Quiet Hours - City Photographs ISBN 0-8166-4328-8 | English | 1993 | 94 pages | PDF | 8.9 MB
MY LOVE OF THE AMERICAN CITY BEGAN IN THE BRONX, WHERE I WAS BORN and grew up. My family lived in an apartment a few blocks from Yankee Stadium (I can still hear the roar of the crowd when someone hit a home run). I began to draw and paint the Bronx landscape at an early age, but my formal train-ing started when I attended the High School of Music and Art across the river in Manhattan. That was followed by four years at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in lower Manhattan and a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1962. I worked in various architects' offices, but my heart still belonged to art. I continued to study art in the evenings. In 1967, as an experiment, I took an introductory photography course at The New School—and I had finally found my medium. Download (9533 KB): http://rapidshare.com/files/229616414/TheQuietHours-CityPhotographs.pdf
