Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable: Fifty Years of New York Magazine

I did not expect the book to be so heavy. I brought this as a gift and if I realized its weight, I would have had it delivered directly to the recipient. Great overview of New York City.

As soon as the train left for the airport, I realized that I had left the power supply for my computer at home. I found the FINsix Dart 65W in an airport store. It was expensive, but I had to work in Europe. It's a power supply. How could it be worth five stars? Of course, it charges my computer (and many other brands), but I discovered that it is so small that I can just keep it in my back pack so I always had power for my computer. I don't have to remember to bring the power supply from home, and I never run out of power because I forgot it. That's worth five stars. I liked it so much that I bought one for my son, who travels for work. It cost about half as much on line as in the airport. Then one day at work, I needed it for our system programmer to install a big program, and his mouth dropped when he saw how small the FINsix is. I just bought him one as a gift. . . . 5 STARS! (No. I'm a real person.)

I originally bought this book as a coffee table book, but to my surprise, it was full of beautiful stories and pictures that were so compelling, it took my breath away! I LOVE THIS BOOK! The book is oversize and weighs a lot, but looks amazing on my coffee table. I am a very happy camper!

Bought it for a gift to a friend of mine who reads the NEW YORK all the time, so why not!

It was like a history lesson, that I had lived through, unfortunately not in New York. Love it 💋💋💋

I gave this to a former New Yorker for Christmas. It is all in there. Great history.

Our Daughter who loves New York was very excited about receiving this book for Christmas!

excellent in any ways - great design, great texts, it is a heavyweight champion

A suitably sumptuous book to celebrate fifty years of the cities leading weekly, of course, there is that other weekly with the addition of ER on its name and that, too, has plenty of listing information but the readership is as much the east coast liberal elite as well as city dwellers. The editors took the wise decision to avoid dividing the years into decades and looking at each in detail, which tends to be the usual format for anniversary books, instead they summed it up in eight chapters: Power; Midnight; Food; Crisis; Living; Culture; Family; Style. Each of these picks out the highs and lows of how it effected New York folk. It's worth saying that this is a highly visual book, covers, photos and pages from the magazine are reproduced or the articles reset, for example, Bernie Madoff's March 2, 2009 cover fills a page and the next spread has a reprint of the article by Steve Fishman and a graphic of the original spread in the magazine. There are eight two page fold-outs with covers and reproduced pages for various subjects like Nixon, Trump, food, design, celebrity et cetera. A couple of items I would have expected to see but are absent, one -- the commercial architecture of the city, there have been some very significant skyscrapers erected in the last fifty years and two -- fifty years of covers. OK, 2600 of them maybe going too far, as it is think there are probably around two hundred throughout the book. Pages eighteen to twenty-one has a hundred of them. Looking at a page of covers confirms that the magazine has had some very talented Art Directors over the years, it always looked a beautifully designed publication. Overall, I thought this was a handsome, pictorial reminder of an essential weekly read. Incidentally, when you get your copy remove the cover because the reverse opens out to a large poster called The Approval Matrix, everything from highbrow to lowbrow, the NYC taste hierarchies revealed.

No es un libro de fotografías, es un reportaje inmenso con textos y fotos de la New York Magazine desde su fundación en 1968. New York desde el punto de vista de sus protagonistas, famosos y no famosos, y de las cosas que han pasado allí, de las modas, los estilos, incluso de los tipos de letra.

A collection of pictures and articles about life in NYC. Great book.

It is like a journey in time! Wonderful and pompous coffeetablebook!

Terrific photography and interesting historical commentaries .