NYC BOOK AWARDS 1998
New York: An Illustrated History of the People
Allon Schoener
"Exactly seventy years after Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes completed his retrieval of the visible evidence of the emerging infrastructure of New York City, and forty-five years after John Kouwenhoven gave us the graphic revelation of its developing form and features, Allon Schoener has put before us nothing less than the picture of all New York's people. What a great historical portrait. Schoener, inspired by the design scheme of Massimo Vignelli in
Harlem on My Mind, gives us page after page of new-found images that bubble with informative detail and bolsters them with quotes and observations, illuminating the side-ways of population growth. "
- Joan K. Davidson
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