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The Face of New York: The City as It Was and as It Is by Andreas Feininger .. PDF

For lovers of magnificent photography as well as New Yorkophiles there can be no finer possession than this deluxe volume.

From thousands of prints, drawings and photographs in public and private collections. Andreas Feininger has selected the most colorful and picturesque views of old New York from the early Seventeenth to the early Twentieth Centuries. He then went to the very same places and photographed them as they are today.

Each two-page spread in the book contains one of Feininger's superb photographs (with full technical data) of present-day New York, together with an earlier view or views of the same scene. The result is an amazing study in contrasts that will fascinate antiquarians and Feininger fans alike.

Remember this promotional blurb was written seventy-five years ago. It is not a modern book.

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