Andrew Savulich: The City

Dominic Clarke said Amazing book and Savulich's eye is anything but usual. Amazing book and Savulich's eye is anything but usual. A real treat for those who enjoy the darker side of things.. Carol Hopkins said Five Stars. A gripping look at New York City as it was at the time.. B. Wolinsky said The Bad Old Days. A bike messenger bleeds form the mouth after being punched by a cab driver. In another photo, a building doorman tackles a pickpocket on the hood of a cab. A subway passenger sits on the floor of the car, tended to by transit police after being stabbed. The other riders pay no attention. Andrew Savulich photographed the city for the Daily News since the 1980’s, mostly as a freelancer. Most of this photos from the time never got printed. The photos in this book display the sleazy, dangerous, and dir

both a tribute to tabloid photography in its heyday and the wildness of 1980s New York City. They're deadpan and hilarious, leaving just enough unsaid to send your eye right back to the photos. Andrew Savulich's first photography book paints a unique portrait of the city's streets from 1980 to 1995. (Ellie Schroeder Observer)When he makes prints for himself rather than for the paper, Savulich adds an extra dimension in the form of neatly lettered captions. (Christopher Bonanos New York Magazine)

Andrew Savulich's (born 1959) subject is this perpetually changing metropolis, and his images are a unique mix of spot news and street photography, capturing crime scenes as well as everyday life. New York in the 1980s and the first half of the 90s was clearly a different place than it is now: the city was more violent, the streets stranger, and Times Square still wonderfully sleazy. What at first seems like objective commentary soon reveals a dry ironic tone, at times bordering on black humor.. Social and cultural transition is often hard to gauge. The startling immediacy of the moment prevails in his black-and-white images on which he provides handwritten captions