
The following photographers have been included in the show, with the details of the works on view in parentheses:
- Berenice Abbott (3 gelatin silver prints, 16x16, 14x10 or 16x5, 1932-1938, and 1 photogravure, 13x10, c1932/later)
- American Illustrated Stereograph (1 albumen print, 4x7, c1876)
- Anonymous (2 bromide prints, 6x8, 1884, 1 albumen print, 5x10, c1876, 1 albumen print, 9x16, c1900, and 1 group albumen prints, 6x8, c1876)
- Margaret Bourke-White (1 gelatin silver print, 9x13, c1930)
- Charlotte Brooks (1 gelatin silver print, 13x10, 1943)
- Harold Haliday Costain (3 gelatin silver prints, 9x20, c1930)
- John Paul Edwards (1 gelatin silver print, 9x20, c1925)
- Fairchild Aerial Surveys (1 gelatin silver print, 14x18, 1931)
- W. Gray (2 albumen prints, 6x8 or 7x9, c1890)
- Horsman's Cabinet Photographs (1 albumen print, 4x6, c1875)
- International News Photo (1 gelatin silver print, 10x8, 1930)
- J.S. Johnston (1 albumen print, 7x9, 1893 and 1 bromide print, 8x6, c1890)
- Keystone View Company (1 gelatin silver print, 5x7, 1937)
- Arthur Lavine (1 gelatin silver print, 13x9, 1965)
- Ben Judah Lubschez (1 gelatin silver print, 6x9, c1925)
- Nickolas Muray (1 gelatin silver print on gold paper, 4x4, 1927)
- Fritz Neugass (1 gelatin silver print, 10x8, 1947)
- Peyser & Patzig (1 gelatin silver print, 10x7, 1930)
- Press Photo (1 gelatin silver print, 7x10, 1945)
- George Rockwood (1 albumen print, 7x9, c1880)
- Charles Rotkin (2 gelatin silver prints, 10x13, c1950)
- Edward Scherck (1 gelatin silver print, 8x10, c1930)
- William Gordon Shields (4 gelatin silver prints, 14x11, 13x10 or 9x19, 1915-1917)
- Samuel Stebbins (1 gelatin silver print, 14x11, c1934)
- Fred Stein (2 gelatin silver prints, 14x11 or 9x7, 1940-1945)
- Howard Suchurek (1 chromogenic print, 19x9, c1960)
- Todd Webb (1 gelatin silver print, 8x9, 1947)
- Paul Woolf (5 gelatin silver prints, 8x6, 9x7, 8x7 or 8x10, 1935-1940)
Comments/Context: As collectors of city and industrial images, we're fascinated by the geometric patterns that are created by the interactions of architecture and by the density of built structures that make up all kinds of cities. This show brings together nearly a century of aerial views of New York city, providing both a rich historical record and an evolving survey of how landmarks and urban buildings were used as the raw material for photographic experimentation.
My favorite images in the show are those that induce a bit of vertigo, where the angles get distorted and the walls of buildings bend in unexpected ways. They forgo the heroic romance of the broad vista and instead give us the frenetic, spine tingling energy of the city.

Rating: * (1 star) GOOD (rating system described here)
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