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| New York from the Air | 
| Author: John Tauranac
Creator: Yann Arthus-bertrand
Publisher: Harry N Abrams
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
Buy Used: $4.75
You Save: $40.25 (89%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1750338
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 154
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 14.8 x 11.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0810936925
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.47100222
EAN: 9780810936928
ASIN: 0810936925
Publication Date: September 1998
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Condition: No dust cover. Remainder marked.
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Product Description
From vantage points few people ever attain, world-renowned aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand has created a lush, romantic tribute to one of the most thrilling cities in history. 80+ full-color photos.
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 NEW YORK NEW YORK February 28, 2006
Like its fabulous brother, Paris from above, this book possesses breathtaking visuals. New York, like Paris, photographs well. New York, with its spectacular skyscrapers, and gorgeous parks, is a arial photographers dream. Arthus Bertrand, captures the city and his images are so vivid and clear. It's amazing to see many of the iconic skyscrapers photographed from overhead instead of from ground level or from other skyscrapers. I appreciated how close he photographs some of the buildings you can almost see the original masons markings on the stones, it's just total eye candy. If you have a love for this great city or just appreciate great photograph and vivid visuals the I believe you will enjoy this book, really the next best thing to being there.
Excellent aerial photographs of Manhattan buildings January 10, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book consists of excellent full-page photographs of
widely known Manhattan landmark buildings (other New York
boroughs are not included) taken from unusual perspective
not accessible by pedestrian. Someone complained in a previous
review that most pictures were taken during dawn and dusk.
I think that lighting was very carefully considered and
significantly contributes to the beauty of the photographs.
Description is relatively short, it is a photographic book,
not a city guide. The photographs are much more artistic than
in Robert Cameron's book "Above New York", which, in contrast,
includes also other New York boroughs and photographs cover
larger areas (not single buildings) and are taken during flat
mid-day light.
Good Starting Book for New York December 28, 2001
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this book because of my adoration for the City of New York, and the beautiful picture on the front. Those looking for an in-depth history of NYC or more of a "hands-on" book, should look elsewhere. This book provides what the title suggests. It is a brief introduction to the vast world that is New York City. The photography is beautiful, although sometimes blurry at edges. There are small paragraphs explaining what you are looking at. Most of the main attractions are covered (Empire State Building, Central Park, Harlem, Greenwich Village, etc), as well as some others that I didn't know about, but had my eyes opened to. I will definitely be more prepared and educated as I go to NYC next time. The only complaint is that most of the coverage is of Manhattan, and it's attractions and not so much of the other parts of New York, as the book suggests. This was fine by me, as I was mostly interested in Manhattan anyway, but could mislead others. I would highly recommend this book if you like the city of New York, or are planning a trip there. This could be a great supplement as it gives you a different view of the city, one that you can't get just by being there. A view from the air.
 A disappointed New Yorker. November 21, 2001
17 out of 24 found this review helpful
I would not recommend this book for anyone who hasn't lived in New York. I live here and I expected a lot more than I got. After 9/11 I wanted to get more photographic representations of New York City. What I got were inferior photographs and an uninteresting lesson in architecture. Captions to the photographs gave explanations about the design of the building which was of little value. For example the name of the developer, architect, and designer. When multiple buildings were in the picture, as was often the case, the description of each building was hard to follow. There should have been a small schematic with numbers to allow easier interpretation. Most importantly however, the pictures were nowhere near as good as I would have hoped. Many pictures were taken at dusk and sunset hours and they came out dark. The shadows, especially of pictures in lower Manhattan are long and dilute the quality of the pictures. Many shots of the World Trade Center and their neighboring Battery Park City and WFC are pretty poor. There is an overhead shot of the WTC that is taken at dusk and the smaller buildings are invisible. No pictures were taken at night, when the city has a new life. There were no pictures of Times Square, only one picture where Madison Squeare Garden is partly in the background, no pictures of South Street Seaport (which would come out well if taking a picture of Manhattan from Brooklyn), and many of the pictures were of obscure buildings that most people don't look at. As a native New Yorker I can appreciate seeing some of the unique buildings and architecture, but as far as a book for sights and photographs there is much to be desired. It almost seems that the photographer just took some pictures and put them together, almost haphazardly. The book was definitely not worth what I paid for it. They could have done so much more with the concept of aerial photos, but I was left disappointed.
a new vision of new york October 18, 1999
4 out of 28 found this review helpful
if you live in or if you love new york you must have this book that's enough
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