The New York City Book Awards were presented at a ceremony and reception on
May 14, 2008. Jury Chair Constance Rogers Roosevelt welcomed attendees and Library
trustee Laurence Bergreen offered remarks and spoke of his own fortunate finds and experiences with archival research, a theme that links this year's two winning books. Jury members Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and Roger Pasquier presented the awards.
Michael
Lorenzini, winner for New York Rises and Curator of Photography at the New York
City Municipal Archives, gave a brief presentation on the life and career of Eugene de
Salignac, the subject of his book. Trying Leviathan author D. Graham Burnett, who is
an Associate Professor of History at Princeton University, was unable to attend, but his
wife Christina Burnett, a professor of law at Columbia, gracefully accepted for him.
Award for Photography: New York Rises:
Photographs by Eugene de Salignac
by Michael Lorenzini and Kevin Moore,
edited by Nancy Grubb
published by cooperation of Aperture Foundation
and The New York City Department of Records/
Municipal Archives
