Big City Primer

"Bill Barrette and John Yau offer a frank, far-ranging perception of New York City that is neither traditional nor sensational. The photographs are not images for which the city is famous, but a view of New York as it is--immense and ultimately unknowable. Here are uncommon photographs, taken in the five boroughs, of buildings and bridges, cars and churches, public monuments and private memorials."--the publisher.