Dear New York
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Publisher Description
ln 2025, Brandon Stanton, creator of Humans of New York and author of four number one NYT bestselling books, will publish his most personal work yet: Dear New York, a photographic love letter to the city he has embraced. Opening with a deeply moving prologue that reads like a train ride through the city, the book expands into nearly 500 full-colour pages of portraits and stories from the streets of New York. And, for the first time ever - unlike Stanton's past books, which were curated from his massive body of online work - over 75 per cent of the stories in Dear New York have never been published before.
Stanton created the groundbreaking first volume of Humans of New York in 2013, only three years after beginning his photography career. Called 'one of the most important art projects of the decade' by The Washington Post, its unique combination of intimate portraiture and on-the-spot interviews spawned a style of storytelling that has become a hallmark of our digital age. Twelve years later, having now interviewed more than 10,000 people around the world, a seasoned artist returns home with a very personal mission: to use everything he's learned to capture the city he loves most.
This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.
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Humans of New York creator Stanton (Humans) captures the beating heart of New York City—its people—in this vibrant love letter to the metropolis. Featuring portraits, most of which are being published here for the first time, alongside brief and characteristically intimate subject interviews, he highlights the celebratory (a woman in a colorful feathered costume during Carnival), as well as the melancholy (a woman on the verge of tears discusses the challenges of living with a mom who'd spent most of the speaker's childhood in the hospital: "But now she's in my life and just commenting on everything.... It feels like she's hovering over me, making sure that my life is stable, that she'll always have some pockets to dip her hands into"). Some portraits are more New York specific. For instance, an older man in a pink blazer vividly recounts first visiting the city as a young gay college student: "All the storefronts were dark; It was like lyric poetry to me. Unopened boxes of mystery. All I knew was I had to get to Greenwich Village." Elsewhere, a doorman laments, "Here it's very hard to know if someone is genuine.... Sometimes the moment a person gets what they want, the smile goes away." Stanton's knack for capturing his subjects' voices is on full display, making for a collection that easily ranges from heartbreaking to bizarre to humorous. It's an affectionate mosaic of the city and those who call it home.
