New York, N. Why?

From Strand Bookstore

This remarkable album marks a collaboration between Burckhardt, one of the more prominent New York City photographers of the 1930s and '40s, and his companion and lifelong friend, the poet and dance critic Edwin Denby. Previously unpublished and reproduced here in facsimile, the project forms a unique handmade book containing sixty-seven photographs and seven sonnets. Now in the collection of The Metropolitian Museum of Art, it contains many of Burckhardt's best-known images, dazzlingly srequenced into three urban themes - advertising, pedestrians, and street furniture. Illus., 67 duotone plates. 52p.