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| Christopher Wool: East Broadway Breakdown | 
 enlarge | Creator: Christopher Wool
Publisher: Holzwarth Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1197250
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 3935567111
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783935567114
ASIN: 3935567111
Publication Date: November 2003
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Product Description
Between 1994 and 1995, Christopher Wool shot a series of photographs in downtown New York City that he calls East Broadway Breakdown, after a street on the Lower East Side, the neighborhood where he lives and works. Taken at night using a 35 mm camera, the pictures feature the city's signature streets with their dilapidated storefronts and ramshackle staircases leading up to anonymous spaces. The high contrast images are often hard to read, producing, rather than coherent images, seemingly random forms that emerge from skewed camera angles. Like his paintings, Wool's photographs hover between abstraction and representation, forcing viewers to confront their desire for visual coherence while offering an alternative construct for picture-making today. Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in./320 pgs / 0 color 160 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20131
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The Mean Streets of New York July 29, 2005
While I've never visited New York, Mr Wool's photographs are sparce visual commentry on the spaces rarely scrutinized of this amazing city. Here you get to see allyways, corridors, and burnt out police cars from his exploration at night. The images themselves have a snap shot sort of look and at times appear blurred, which gives the book a gritty sort of nonchalant appeal. Having been a big fan of Wool's paintings, it's interesting to see visual comparrisons with this publication.
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