Author: C.G. Calabres
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Keywords: subway
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2006-06-26
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1424145694
ISBN-13: 9781424145690
A stroll on a New York subway platform in the dead of night seems like a good way for Joel Tinker to escape his decadent lifestyle. But he doesn’t count on getting mugged and left on the rail bed for dead. Karen, the mysterious bag lady, finds Joel and hauls his nearly lifeless body to a side tunnel, where she nurses him back to health. After he recovers, Joel fights to keep from returning to the world where he was well-loved. Karen introduces him to another world…a world that fulfills his every desire…and a love that far surpasses any that he has ever known. But fate is against him. He
Author: Miriam Cohen
Publisher: Star Bright Books
Keywords: subway
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 1932065245
ISBN-13: 9781932065244
A boy meets the Island Lady on the subway. Out of her bag comes an ocean breeze, a caribbean meal, a steel band and a party he will never forget!
Author: Tod Lange
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Keywords: graffiti, subway, york, new
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0764333399
ISBN-13: 9780764333392
Ride back in time on the colorful New York City subway line of the 1970s to 1990s; the graffiti years, when subway cars became rolling metal canvases for some of the most notorious and influential graffiti "writers;" of all time. Explore the amazing array of art work from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s transit system "graveyards," including the work of graffiti artists BLADE, GHOST, SENT, REAS, VEN, WOLF, and STRIDER, as well as many other talented "underdogs." The era is richly illustrated with over 235 rare, never-before-published photographs accompanied by personal accounts from the w
Author: Tracy Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: underground, york, new, subway, art
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0813544521
ISBN-13: 9780813544526
The New York City subway, considered an engineering feat and a work of art, has kindled the imagination of millions. Art and the Subway explores artistic production surrounding the world’s most famous public transportation system, from just before its opening in 1904 to the present day. Using a stunning array of images, Tracy Fitzpatrick offers perspectives on ways in which the subway has been used as a subject about which to make art, as a site within which to make art, and as a canvas upon which to make art. Fitzpatrick captures the emotions of artists and riders alike, as she explores
Author: Craig Castleman
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: york, new, graffitti, subway, getting
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1984-04-26
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0262530511
ISBN-13: 9780262530514
"Getting Up" is the term used by graffiti "artists" to describe their success in making their mark on the New York subway system. Through candid interviews, New Yorker Craig Castleman documents the inside story of the lives and activities of these young graffitists.
Author: Christophe Agou
Publisher: Quantuck Lane Pre
Keywords: subway, city, york, new, life
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2004-09-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1593720084
ISBN-13: 9781593720087
From its beginnings in the early part of the 20th century, the New York City subway has captured the imaginations of photographers from Walker Evans to Bruce Davidson, and many more. But never has it been so powerfully and lyrically portrayed as in these carefully orchestrated sequences from Christophe Agou, a photographer whose searing images haunt and intrigue us at the same time. Bridging the worlds of documentary and art photography, Life Below is a series of frozen moments, revealing fear, love, affection, stress, and solitude. The compelling photographs are an intimate rendezvous with pe
Author: Reynold Joseph Paul Junker
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: music, subway
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2005-09-29
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0595368468
ISBN-13: 9780595368464
Subway Music is about finding things Reinhold Junker thought he had lost forever: his subway music and his name. Subway Music begins in a Manhattan hotel room the day after he and his wife celebrated their Christmas anniversary. She coaxes him into taking her to Brooklyn to see where "all those stories you tell all of the time about growing up" took place. As a certified Californian, that’s the last thing he wants to do. Subways were then. Freeways are now. But they go. At Prospect Park he "finds" his father and learns about both courage and reverse prejudice—prejudice against his
