How New York Breaks Your Heart

Author(s): Bill Hayes

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Bill Hayes's critically acclaimed memoir Insomniac City provided a first look at his unique street photography. Now he presents an exquisite collection that captures the full range of his work and the magic of chance encounters in New York City. Hayes's "frank, beautiful, bewitching" street photographs "unmask their subjects' best and truest selves" (Jennifer Senior, New York Times): A policeman pauses at the end of a day. Cooks sneak in cigarette breaks. A pair of movers plays cards on the back of a truck. Friends claim the sidewalk. Lovers embrace. A flame-haired girl gazes mysteriously into the lens. And park benches provide a setting for a couple of hunks, a mom and her baby, a stylish nonagenarian . . . How New York Breaks Your Heart reveals ordinary New Yorkers at their most peaceful, joyful, distracted, anxious, expressive, and at their most fleeting--bringing the texture of the city to vivid life. Woven through with Hayes's lyric reflections, these photos will, like the city itself, break your heart by asking you to fall in love.

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Bill Hayes's critically acclaimed memoir Insomniac City provided a first look at his unique street photography. Now he presents an exquisite collection that captures the full range of his work and the magic of chance encounters in New York City.

New Yorkers know better than to stare on the street, but Bill Hayes' camera is allowed to, and often his subjects, whether alone or in pairs, stare right back at him, and now at us. It's in these ocular embraces that we feel the humanity and the beautiful eccentricity of these individuals being revealed. Hayes gives us glimpses into the souls of the city's characters in these arresting on-the-spot portraits. -- Billy Collins Bill Hayes' photographs tell the story of what really makes New York New York: its people. -- Roz Chast A photographic love letter to New York City and its people . . . With every photo, Hayes captures the casual intimacy of his subjects with their natural habitat to show what's most heartwarming about the city: the rare, diverse, and vital spirit of the people in it. * Publishers Weekly * Frank, beautiful, bewitching-[Hayes's photographs] unmask their subjects' best and truest selves. -- Jennifer Senior * New York Times * [Hayes's] arresting pictures celebrate the fact that 'beauty comes in unbeautiful ways' in the city that never sleeps. * NPR * [Hayes] immortalizes ordinary people in the city that never sleeps. -- Sam Roberts * New York Times * [Hayes's] photos are reminiscent of Diane Arbus' street portraits, the difference being that Arbus was drawn to the strangeness in people while Hayes is drawn to their warmth and beauty. * San Francisco Chronicle * A gifted photographer. * Oprah.com *

Bill Hayes is the author of Insomniac City, The Anatomist, Five Quarts, and Sleep Demons. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and his writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, BuzzFeed, and the Guardian, among other publications. His photographs have been featured in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and the New Yorker. He lives in New York. Visit his website at billhayes.com

General Fields

  • : 9781635570854
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • : February 2018
  • : .79 Inches X 8.29 Inches X 8.3 Inches
  • : March 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Bill Hayes
  • : Hardback
  • : 318
  • : English
  • : bl2017051457
  • : 160
  • : 4-color throughout