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"Throughout the 1980s, the work by US-American photographer Janet DELANEY in a San Francisco photo lab was punctuated by the last-minute flights she took to New York as a courier. In these unexpected moments in New York, she wandered the streets with her Rolleiflex camera, taking in the rhythms and characters of this much-mythologised city. Though tired and often lost, the act of photographing gave Janet DELANEY a sense of presence and alertness, attuned to the crowds that overtook her and mesmerized by the depth of history woven into the city’s structures.
Content
The color photographs that make up this series in this out-of-print photographic volume, 'Red Eye to New York' by Janet DELANEY are bursting with life and reveal the formation of her generous approach to photographing the streets and the people who inhabit them, capturing the precious mix of private lives lived in public and the transient moments of connection between photographer and subject. The book includes also a text by Amanda Maddox, Associate Curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.” (© Mack books, 2021)