Dirk Reinartz

The photographer Dirk Reinartz began to organize his photographs into books in 1985. Digging up images from a 1974 trip to New York, he exclaimed, "These really are my best pictures " He chose several for publication but sadly died in 2004, leaving the project unfinished. This book is the completion of that project. Reinartz's New York photographs offer a highly personal tale of the city. Among the crush and crowds of people, he discovered special characters and expressive faces; and in the city that casts many shadows, he especially captured the fascinating play of light. Reinartz's photographs recall the atmosphere of a place that, in the middle of the 1970s, was full of promise and on the threshold of an urban revival.