Night Walk
by Ken Schles
Photographs: Ken Schles
Publisher: Steidl
162 pages
Pictures: black and white illustrations
Year: 2014
ISBN: 978-3-86930-692-6
Price: 65 €
Comments: 17.3 x 23.2 cm, English, hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. Condition: new.
Twenty-five years after the printing of his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the evening air of an irretrievable Downtown New York as he saw and experienced it. Night Walk is a substantive and intimate chronicle of New York’s last pre-Internet bohemian outpost, a stream of consciousness portrayal that peels back layers of petulance and squalor to find the frisson and striving of a life lived amongst the rubble. Here, Schles embodies the flâneur as Sontag defines it, as a “connoisseur of empathy,” “cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes.” We see in Night Walk a new and revelatory Ulysses for the 21st century: a searching tale of wonder and desire, life and love in the dying hulk of a ruined American city.
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Night Walk
by Ken Schles
Photographs: Ken Schles
Publisher: Steidl
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Pictures: black and white illustrations
Year: 2014
ISBN: 978-3-86930-692-6
Price: 65 €
Comments: 17.3 x 23.2 cm, English, hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. Condition: new.
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