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New York underground: 1970-1980

Door Veretta Cobler

Categorie
Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer
#329730-AD23
Titel
New York underground: 1970-1980
Auteur
Cobler, Veretta
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Parkstone Press
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
1859958230
ISBN13
9781859958230
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting
Tragedy came to the Big Apple long before 9/11 with the arrival of a new four-letter world called AIDS that terrorized an entire generation of New Yorkers. It threw the world's freest, most cosmopolitan and culturally advanced city back into a medieval mindset of fear. Photographer Veretta welcomes us back to the last days of a self-confident city that is always ready to party in effusively decorated nightspots. She shows a generation that sang and danced in garish attire through the carefree days that opened up after the Vietnam War, unaware of sordid doings underway that would radically alter their mindset. This book bears witness to the last days of an era before an entire generation of New Yorkers discovered the grief, mourning and despair that comes with the loss of loved ones. Throug... (Lees verder)hout these pages, there is still music, fun and laughter in vibrant garb. Everyone could live it up in the certainty it would last forever.
Pagina's
255
Conditie
Nieuw
Prijs
€ 12,50

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