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    New York in the Sixties
    New York in the Sixties
    New York in the Sixties
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    New York in the Sixties

    By Klaus Lehnartz and Allan R. Talbot

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    Compelling photographs offer a vivid and varied tableau of daily life: shoppers, subways, Central Park, Coney Island, dozens of other revealing views of the city. 159 photographs by Lehnartz.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateMay 5, 2014
    ISBN9780486168470
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      New York in the Sixties - Klaus Lehnartz

      NEW YORK

      IN THE SIXTIES

      Photographs by

      Klaus Lehnartz

      Text by Allan R. Talbot

      Dover Publications, Inc., New York

      Frontispiece: A Rockefeller rally in front of Federal Hall Memorial. Frequently aspiring to the Presidency during the 60s, Rockefeller had to content himself with the Vice Presidency under Gerald Ford, 1974-77.

      Copyright © 1969 by Stapp Verlag Wolfgang Stapp, Berlin.

      Copyright © 1978 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

      New York in the Sixties is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1978. The photographs are a selection of those originally published by Stapp Verlag, Berlin, in New York, 1969.

      International Standard Book Number eISBN 13: 978-0-486-16847-0

      Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-53190

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc.

      180 Varick Street

      New York, N.Y. 10014

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Plate

      INTRODUCTION

      The photographs in this book show what New York looked like in the 1960s —in the summer of 1968, to be precise. They were taken by Klaus Lehnartz, a visiting German, and were published in book form in Europe in the mid 70s. After making arrangements for an American edition, Hayward Cirker, president of Dover Publications, asked me to comment on how Mr. Lehnartz’ photographs captured the trends and events of the place and the period.

      Paintings and photographs provide valuable evidence of how people live and what they are like. These visual sources have, in recent years, been augmented by movies and television and the perspectives can vary dramatically between media. I wonder, for example, how confusing it may be 50 years from now for a person to reconcile Mr. Lehnartz’ photographs with television tapes of the 1960s. The television view will probably dwell on Mayor John Lindsay, the New York Mets baseball team, the demonstrations against the war in Vietnam, the turbulence of ghetto uprisings and civil disorder. There is

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