The book ends with contemporary aerial photographs, which at first seem out of place among the vintage documents.
Leather sofas and vintage photographs documenting the hotel's heritage are found in the bar, which is a honeypot for locals at weekends.
Because the Getty Museum primarily collects vintage prints documenting the history of photography, she said that it is "exciting to work with living photographers".
While I don't like plain text, it is better than a vintage 1985 Wordstar document that no one can open.
Consulting city transportation records, state and local histories, religious documents, vintage photographs, advertisements and 18th-century diaries, Mr. Walker pieced together the stories of all 103 streets.
PHOTOGRAPHER FRANK JUMP documents vintage ads on the sides of old New York buildings.
The release offers a fine document of vintage Young, including a rare piano-driven version of "Cinnamon Girl".
The vintage illustrations and photographs document the city's police force from its mid-19th-century roots through 20th-century milestones like Samuel J. Battle's becoming the first black officer, in 1911, to radiation sensors on patrol cars in 2007, with edifying captions from Joshua Ruff and Michael Cronin of the New York City Police Museum.
Although most of these vintage photographs are straightforward documents of bridge construction and maintenance, they're far from artless, and a number of them echo or anticipate the work of Eugène Atget, Walker Evans, Weegee, and Danny Lyon.
Both combine sparkling new color shots of the home and gardens taken by Tim Street-Porter; architectural documents and vintage photographs; pieces of the collection; and projects by contemporary artists who had residencies at Shangri La (which has served, since Duke's death in 1993, as the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art). 2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan, (212) 299-7777, madmuseum.org.org
Both combine sparkling new color shots of the home and gardens taken by Tim Street-Porter; architectural documents and vintage photographs with pieces of the collection; and projects by contemporary artists who had residencies at Shangri La (which has served, since Duke's death in 1993, as the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, and was opened to the public in 2002).
