Abandoned NYC
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780764347610 (0764347616)
ASIN: 0764347616
Publish date: 2015-01-28
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
There's a peculiarly haunting beauty to ruined buildings. I know it sounds cliche, but I think it's because these abandoned places display the triumph of nature's entropy over humanity's brief victories of imposed order. Harsh geometric forms are softened by decay, broken by new plant life, tempered...
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley. This book actually starts with a “do not do this at home” type of warning label because it is a book of photographs about abandoned buildings which are not only dangerous but also, in some cases, illegal to enter. But the photos are ...