Tag: Ken Schles

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

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 had trouble finding a copy of his collection of black-and-white photographs of Manhattan’s East Village—he had to ask a clerk at the St. Mark’s bookstore for help.

March 2, 2015
KEN SCHLES: "Invisible City" (1988)

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 story, they form an intense narrative each one contextualizing the image that came before and that comes after.

Link: KEN SCHLES: “Invisible City” (1988)

April 26, 2010