| Joel Sternfeld: Walking The High Line |  | Authors: John Stilgoe, Adam Gopnik
Creator: Joel Sternfeld
Publisher: Steidl/Pace/MacGill Gallery
Category: Book
Buy New: $149.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 986,123
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 56
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 388243726X
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783882437263
ASIN: 388243726X
Publication Date: March 2, 2002
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Product Description
Sometimes like a river of grass, sometimes like the wheat fields of the Canadian prairies, the High Line is a unique ruin that simultaneously permits contemplation of nature and the city. Since March 2000, photographer Joel Sternfeld has been documenting the abandoned elevated railway line which runs for 1.5 miles along the West Side of New York City, from 34th Street down along the edge of the Hudson River, through West Chelsea's tree-lined blocks and art galleries, and into the heart of the Meat Packing District. Walking the path of this real-time landscape, Sternfeld has created a suite of images in which the landscape is read as both a social and cultural indicator. Essays by Adam Gopnik and John Stilgoe.
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 Fantastic book November 12, 2009
Dalton (Brooklyn, NY United States)
This is a great book of photographs. Beautifully made and printed, and Joel Sternfeld truly is one of the best art photographers working today. The book is small, with only 24 images, but each one is worth savoring and going back to over and over again. The new version has information about the construction of the park that wasn't in the previous edition. I don't mind that the image titles are at the back of the book (a complaint of an earlier review) because it allows me to simply focus on the the images.
 Slightly off the beaten tracks February 3, 2004
Robin Benson
17 out of 25 found this review helpful
Joel Sternfeld had the right idea when he took photos of Manhattan's High Line in 2000. These are great images of the abandoned railroad and they work so well because you don't really realise that the track is way above street level and now overgrown with all manner of greenery. These photos perhaps give an eerie impression of what Manhattan might look like some months after all the people left.
Apart from the excellent twenty-four photos I found this book very disappointing, there is the usual annoyance of having all the captions on one page at the back of the book. Plenty of room is available to center them under each photo. There are two essays: one by John Stilgoe I found very tedious, Adam Gopnick's was more interesting as it directly concerned the High Line, its history and possible future. Both essays take up twenty-two pages, almost as much as the photo section and this after all is a photo book.
BTW you can see all of the photos on the High Line web site, had I known that I would not have bought the book!
***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
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