Times Squared - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 091582972X ISBN 13: 9780915829729

Verlag: CHAMELEON BOOKS, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

For over 25 years, Toby Old has had a photographic dialogue with Times Square - at different times of day, in all lights, and during all seasons, with its multitude of events, parades, theater, sports, sex shops, and industries - taking place simultaneously on, in, and around the crossroads of the world. Old offers us a different look at Times Square - the underside of society, photographed as segments linked to a certain period of time, to a specific place.
Toby Old's images pull no punches. In a fraction of a second, his square-format camera, in capturing the freakish moments of the fringes of our culture, presents his vision of America.
Through reading the introduction by Richard Gordon, himself a professional photographer, and by looking at the 114 full-page duotone photographs themselves, we get an insight into Toby Old's world - how his pictures vibrate with the pulse of life; how his images challenge our notion of conformity and speak to us today.

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Richard Gordon is best-known for his hilarious 'Doctor' books and the long-running television series they inspired. Born in 1921, he qualified as a doctor and went on to work as an anaesthetist at the famous St Bartholomew's Hospital, before a spell as a ship's surgeon and then as assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. In 1952, he left medical practice to take up writing full time and embarked upon the 'Doctor' series. Many of these are based on his experiences in the medical profession and are told with the rye wit and candid humour that have become his hallmark. They have proved enduringly successful and have been adapted into both film and TV. His 'Great Medical Mysteries' and 'Great Medical Discoveries' concern the stranger aspects of the medical profession, whilst 'The Private Life' series takes a deeper look at individual figures within their specific medical and historical setting. Clearly an incredibly versatile writer, Gordon will, however, always be best known for his comic tone coupled with remarkable powers of observation inherent in the hilarious 'Doctor' series. 'Mr Gordon is in his way the P G Wodehouse of the general hospitals' - The Daily Telegraph. 'I wish some more solemn novelists had half Mr Gordon's professional skills' - Julian Symonds - Sunday Times

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CHAMELEON BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 091582972X
• ISBN 13: 9780915829729
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120
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