First edition ofThe Company of Strangers by Gus Powell (2003)
First impression
Medium format hardback in near fine condition
Some very minor toning and wear to dust jacket, now in a removable protective sleeve
Some very slight toning to extremities of pages
Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm
Published by J and L Books
About
Inspired by Frank O’Hara’s 1964 bookLunch Poems, photographer Gus Powell, who worked for four years as picture editor at theNew Yorker, would spend his own lunch hours wandering midtown Manhattan making poetry. The resulting book of street photography, featuring photographs from his series Lunch Pictures, feels both romantic/nostalgic, and strikingly contemporary. Powells attention to the choreography of pedestrians is remarkable, as is his rendering of midtown light, refracted by office buildings and glass.
