I Shot New York

This book offers a powerful new perspective on a much photographed subject: New York City. The book's creator is veteran news photographer (and former publisher of incendiary magazines) Ralph Ginzburg, who assigned himself the daunting task of photographing a different news event in The Big Apple on 365 consecutive days. The result is a year-long, 510-image extravaganza of the high drama and grandeur that are the everyday life of Gotham.I Shot New York resounds with the city's parades and protests, funerals and weddings, conflagrations and ribbon-cuttings. It is a gallery of the show-biz superstars, politicos, crooks, cops, Presidents, elephants, Pope, baseball greats, soldiers, stuntmen, drug addicts and divas who pervade this exuberant matrix of commerce and culture.