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New York in the 70s is a personal collection of photographs that
documents an exciting chapter in New York City’s history – and a remarkable body of work produced by photographer
Allan Tannenbaum while he was photo editor of the SoHo Weekly News in Manhattan. Based mainly on news and feature stories
assigned by the paper, the photographs encompass many facets of New York life while capturing the heady exuberance of the
1970s and early 1980s. SoHo and the art world were his primary subjects, yet the images also provide a broad chronicle of
the city’s politics and society. Entertainment – especially the music scene – and night life became a large
part of the editorial mix. The collision of continuing 60s counterculture with the remnants of Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam,
coupled with a stagnant economy, was a catalytic force that resulted in an explosion of creativity. By photographing everything
from street gangs to disco divas, from homeless to Hollywood stars, Tannenbaum had assembled a personal diary of his journey
as a photojournalist and raconteur through a strange era in New York. His studio portraits, nighttime flashes, and street
photography paint a unique and mostly unseen picture of the 1970s in New York City. Published in Germany by Feierabend Verlag to the highest standards of photographic reproduction, New
York in the 70s is a book that will become an important cultural artifact. The cover and inside design are spectacular, and
the book was a huge hit at the Frankfurt Book Fair. There are six sections: Man and God and Law (politics, religion, and lifestyle),
Mondo Art, Show Business, Music, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and Nightlife. Well over 400 photographs include some of the last
pictures of John Lennon. Yoko Ono contributed a reminiscence, and noted author P.J. O’Rourke wrote a very witty foreword.
Tannenbaum has written cogent introductions with interviews with such noteables as former Mayor Ed Koch. There are also reproductions
of some of the many SoHo News covers photographed by Tannenbaum. The book is hardcover, 272 pages, and measures 27 cm by 36
cm. The first edition is only in English. Allan
Tannenbaum discovered photography and came of age in the 1960s. His dream career as a photojournalist became reality when
he joined the SoHo Weekly News, a downtown New York City newspaper, in 1973. For several years he covered the city, exploring
its every facet -- from the underground to the high society -- and documenting its political, social and cultural evolution.
His photographs, taken during the turbulent 1970s and early 1980s, serve as a lasting record of that era’s resolution
of ideas, trends, and movements that had begun in the 1960s. SoHo News folded in 1982, and Tannenbaum went on to become an
award-winning photojournalist, with work published in such major international magazines as Time, Life, Newsweek, Paris Match,
and Stern. His photographs have also appeared in numerous books and exhibitions, including Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan.
He is currently based in New York for Polaris Images. New York in the 70s Signed copy $250.00 including shipping
and handling
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Now out of print, a few signed copies are available from
this site. Click on the image to order one.
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Hardcover, 272 pages, more than 420 duotone and color
photographs, signed by the author.
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"For a brief shining
moment (well, much of the 70's), before it got hopelessly commodified, SoHo was the place where New York's wandering
tribe of Bohemians, visionary artists, enlightened slackers, daydreaming writers, and 24 hour party people took up precarious,
sometimes illegal homesteading. Allan Tannebaum was there to document the scene with a combination of empathy, acuity and
a feel for New York City cultural history that makes this work a valuable, lasting remembrance of things past."
--Ron Rosenbaum, author of The Secret Parts
of Fortune and Explaining Hitler
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"Allan Tannenbaum's
photographs of the 1970s are as wildly entertaining and energetic as that wonderful and bizarre decade itself. They form an
important visual history of a moment when American culture changed forever." --David Schonauer, Editor of American Photo Magazine
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"What Weegee was to
photojournalism in the 1930s and 1940s; Allan Tannenbaum is to the 1970s. This volume of Tannenbaum's critical mass of
New York's underside establishes him as one of the most important photographers of his time, in a city that has one of
the most historic traditions of documentary photography." --Miles Barth, Author of Weegee World and Independent Curator
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