Tag: Ken Schles

Ken Schles: Invisible City and Night Walk take a look at life in the East Village during the 1980s (PHOTOS).

Mar 2, 2015

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Trent

in Books

This New York City Neighborhood Was “Invisible” in the ’80s When Ken Schles’ book Invisible City was published in 1988, it quickly sold out. Schles even had trouble finding a copy of his collection of… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/03/01/ken_schles_invisible_city_and_night_walk_take_a_look_at_life_in_the_east.html When Ken Schles’ book Invisible City was published in 1988, it quickly sold out. Schles even…
KEN SCHLES: "Invisible City" (1988)

Apr 26, 2010

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Trent

in Portfolios & Galleries

The images in Invisible City are dark and grainy. They are all black and white, and it is the black and white that does not forgive, that doesn’t console the absence of color with sharply delineated form. Schles’ pictures turn, page after page, in mesmerizing succession, and though the pictures do not tell a particular…