Publisher/powerHouse Books

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The Destruction of Lower Manhattan is a photo collection by American documentary photographer Danny Ryan. Ryan produced many masterpieces, such as "Moment," which summarizes the civil rights movement, "The Bikeriders," which depicts outlaw bikers, and "Conversations with the Dead," which captures prisoners in prison, which captured American society and culture from the inside of the subject, as values changed from the 1960s to the 1970s. This book is a masterpiece photo collection that is no less than the above-mentioned works, and contains photos of the city and buildings of Lower Manhattan, which had been in ruins since the Civil War. Ryan's documentary of Lower Manhattan, which depicts the "past" history of the people hidden there through the empty city and buildings, and also depicts the "present" and "future" through portraits of the people who still gather there and the poor workers who are toiling away at the demolition work. It is a work that is typical of Ryan, who cares for "history," "people," and "hearts." This is a long-awaited book that has been reprinted for the first time in 39 years since the first edition was published in 1969.