D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A T H E P R E S E R VAT I O N FO U N D AT I O N O F PA L M B E AC H HOSTED A BOOK SIGNING FOR STEVEN STOLMAN
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sentences (and stories). So I wasn’t sure, but the book was so thin, and it wouldn’t take me that much time… I loved it. It’s like a novella told as a true story. Holiday also hired David Attie to cover Truman’s tour with his camera. He took those walking trips too, as well as photographing the house 46 QUEST
Rich Wilkie
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Louise Kaufman and Krystian Von Speidel
on Willow Street with its early 19th century grandeur. Attie’s photographs are the neighborhoods they visited but rarely include Truman. They show you neighborhoods at odds with themselves as the world changes. Most of these photographs were not used in the final edit. The editors kept on
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Richard and Robin Bernstein with Steven Stolman
the track of something warm and lovely—like the house. The decay of change is not a pretty picture, but Attie captures the ingenuity of the neighborhood’s inhabitants, even the children who could happily make the most of it and find something to do. This book is a pleasure and a reminder of many things
that often go unnoticed in the early 21st century New York. The decaying areas in David Attie’s photographs are now an area near the Bridge called DUMBO: Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. Hardly decaying, at least from a real estate point of view. You’re in New York, all phases and sizes of it. u
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Mary Hilliard and Pauline Pitt