Codex New York

Photographer Stanley Greenberg's Codex New York is a unique and quirky view of New York City as a vast collection of urban typologies. He embarked on an extraordinary journey to photograph striking and subtle urban typologies, such as alleys, skybridges, parking sheds, architectural relics, tiny streets, and water infrastructure, creating an incomparable visual chronicle of the city. The book also serves as a temporal marker, as many of the empty spaces Greenberg photographed have already been built on, obscuring the views of the city that now exist only in images.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 28 May 2019
Publisher: Monacelli Press

A captivating and unconventional perspective on New York City is presented in Codex New York, a photographic exploration by photographer Stanley Greenberg. As a lifelong resident of New York and a passionate observer of urban infrastructure, Greenberg delves into the city's intricate details that often go unnoticed by the general public. Through his extensive exploration, he perceives New York as a vast catalog of repetitive, varied, morphing, and multiplying features, unfolding block by block and neighborhood by neighborhood.

Greenberg embarked on an extraordinary journey, covering every block of Manhattan from the Battery, where there is now more land than when the Dutch first arrived, to Inwood, which retains more of its original topography than any other part of the city. Along the way, he meticulously captured a diverse range of urban typologies, including alleys, skybridges, parking sheds, architectural remnants, tiny streets, and water infrastructure. These photographs serve as an unparalleled visual chronicle of New York, offering a fresh perspective on the city's diverse urban fabric.

Codex New York organizes these objects into an idiosyncratic field guide, prompting new avenues of inquiry. It also acts as a temporal marker, as many of the empty spaces Greenberg photographed have already been built upon, obscuring the views of the city that exist solely in images. By joining the ranks of renowned photographic documents of New York, Codex New York provides a critical examination and investigation of the city's composition.

Weight: 1484g
Dimension: 205 x 286 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781580935227