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LOU REED'S NYC
31 Oct 2006 08:47
Lou Reed has just released his second book of photography titled Lou Reed’s New York. Published by Steidl, this project depicts New York through the lens of a man who has called the city home for decades and in turn has drawn much of his inspiration and energy from it. Reed, most notably known for his role in the innovative late 60’s avant-rock group, The Velvet Underground, has been photographing the city since the 70’s and has pieced together a collection of 50 recent landscape and portrait images.
“Two years and many cameras and lenses later, these images are the result of a small attempt to share the beauty that has bedazzled the consciousness of this viewer standing on the edge of the river with a box in hand trying to catch the lightning bolt of time. This is organic photography, a recording of the city’s celestial light show—the blazing changes from dawn to dusk across the Hudson—an everyday recording of the majestic flowing sky and waters produced by a deity of such endless talent and originality that a photographer can only snap, focus, and pray that this or that camera, lens, digital back, and all the technical advances coming by the minute can somehow capture a fragment of the quickly shifting magnitude being presented for the inspiration of anyone looking.”—Lou Reed
