*R.I.P.* —assembling the very best of a vibrant street art wave— contains colour photographs of memorials from Harlem and the Lower East Side, the South Bronx and Brooklyn, as well as the moving stories behind them.
"In the city that never sleeps, New York's soul is on display around the clock. New York is the world capital of street graphics - a creative kaleidoscope of urban ephemera in the form of signs, graffiti, murals and advertising. Its innovative ideas, styles and mediums quickly become international trends. Street Graphics New York captures the rich visual patina of the city's cultural diversity - jazz age elegance, brash Sixties Pop Art, hip-hop graffiti, anarchic stencil and sticker art. New York's landmarks are appropriated for chic fashion advertising and iconic tourist souvenirs, and here is the city's 9/11 experience too, up on the walls in emotionally charged imagery." "Barry Dawson's visual themes excite, inform and surprise. New York's streets are acutely observed and presented in a designer's sourcebook and an urban explorer's inspirational guidebook."--Jacket.
Wallace Nutting (1861 - 1941) was a U.S. minister, photographer, artist, and antiquarian, who is most famous for his pictures. He also was an accomplished author, lecturer, furniture maker some of whose reproductions pass as antiques antiques expert and collector. His atmospheric photographs helped spur the Colonial Revival style. He was born in Rockbottom, Massachusetts, on Sunday, November 17, 1861. He was descended from John Nutting, who came from England in 1639 and was killed by Indians during a raid against Groton, Massachusetts. The Indians severed John Nutting's head and put it on a pole to discourage others from settling in the area. Wallace Nutting studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, Hartford Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. He graduated from Harvard with the class of 1887. On June 5, 1888 he married Mariet Griswold in Buckland, Massachusetts. They had no children. Wallace Nutting started taking pictures in 1899 while on long bicycle rides in the countryside. In 1904 he opened the Wallace Nutting Art Prints Studio on East 23rd Street in New York. After a year he moved his business to a farm in Southbury, Connecticut. He called this place "Nuttinghame". In 1912 he moved the photography studio to Framingham, Massachusetts, in a home he called "Nuttingholme". Nutting authored several books about the scenic beauties of New England, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. In the peak of his business he employed about two-hundred colorists. By his own account, Wallace Nutting sold ten million pictures. Wallace Nutting's colorists painted the photographs which he took. These colorists would sometimes sign Wallace Nutting's name on the photos which is why the signatures vary. An interesting fact about Nutting's photography is that he was more prolific with pastoral scenes, consequently his interiors are more valuable. Wallace Nutting died at his home at 24 Vernon St., Framingham, Massachusetts on Saturday, July 19, 1941, at age 79. The body was taken to Augusta, Maine for burial.
"All over the United States, American authors are commemorated in museums, library collections, gravesites, memorial walks, and monuments. Here is a guide to them all - the well known (the Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord, Massachusetts) and the less so (the Lewis Grizzard museum and former filling station in Moreland, Georgia)." "Also included are live performances that serve as regular tributes, such as the annual reading of the poem The Night Before Christmas at the gravesite of Clement Clarke Moore in Brooklyn, New York." "For each entry, the author provides address, phone number, hours and dates open and any other necessary information. The result is a treasure map for the reader of, and traveler through, the world of American literature."--Jacket.
Decades earlier, Malcolm Raphelson, an iconoclastic American painter in his seventies, had been included in a group exhibition -- "Ten Unknowns" -- of up-and-coming artists to watch, but he quickly faded into obscurity after he turned his back on the New York art world that had dismissed his realistic style in favor of abstract expressionism. For the last thirty years, Malcolm has been living mostly alone in a self-imposed exile in a remote village in Mexico where he has worked "on and off...but more off than on." With the passing of time, the art world has come to re-embrace his style. Trevor Fabricant, a New York-based art dealer, tracks down Malcolm and attempts to convince him to mount a solo exhibiton back in the U.S.
R.I.P. by Martha Cooper, Joseph Sciorra | Literally Just Books
