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Destruction of Penn Station by Peter Moore (2001, Hardcover)

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The Destruction of Penn Station

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Product Identifiers

PublisherD.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers

ISBN-101891024051

ISBN-139781891024054

eBay Product ID (ePID)870357

Product Key Features

Book TitleDestruction of Penn Station

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicIndividual Photographers / General, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Regional, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Architecture, Photography, History

AuthorPeter Moore

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight37.8 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width10 in

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Number of Volumes1 vol.

SynopsisMoore's images are permeated with a sense of time and loss. There is a rhythm and flow to them as they unfold, from the arrested, classical quality of the still-intact station to the crescendo of the Dresden-like ruins.--Eric Nash, Opened to the public in 1910, McKim, Mead & White's Pennsylvania Station featured a dramatic vaulted glass ceiling over its expansive main concourse and was inspired in part by the Roman Baths of Caracalla, giving visitor and commuter alike an experience of grandeur in entering and leaving the city. The decision in 1962 to replace the old station and its subsequent demolition ultimately proved to be key moments in the birth of the historical preservation movement--a movement that came too late to save Penn Station itself. But during this period one might on any given day of the week, have seen Peter Moore in the station, carefully photographing the building and the process of its destruction, even as above his head--and above the heads of the 200, 000 commuters who transversed the station each day--cranes were beginning to take down what had been one of the grandest public buildings of the twentieth century. Moore visited the Station again and again between 1962 and 1966 to document its architectural form as well as the drama of its ''unbuilding.'' The resulting photographs combine compositionally elegant images of architectural form and details with haunting pictures of glass and masonry stripped away from steel girders as the building is progressively demolished.