David Anderson was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1943 and was raised there. At age seventeen, he showed his photographic work to Alfred Einsenstaedt at Life Magazine, who encouraged him to begin his career at the New York Daily News. After serving in the U.S. Army as a cameraman, including duty in Vietnam, from 1969 to 1983 he was a cinematographer based in New York City who specialized in commercials and documentaries. He also photographed two independent films directed by artist Nancy Graves, including Isy Boukir (1971), which was acquired for the collection of films at the Museum of Modern Art. Since 1983 he has worked as an architectural photographer and is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery, of New York City. His photographs are in numerous public and corporate collections, including American Airlines, AT&T, the Brooklyn Museum, the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal, Citicorp, Deutsche Bank, Equitable Life Assurance Society, the Library of Congress, the Museum of the City of New York, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, among others. After living in New York City for fifty years, Mr. Anderson moved in 2010 to the Hudson River valley of New York.
"An architectural shift left Manhattan with an unusual blend of
buildings. On Wall Street: Architectural Photographs of Lower
Manhattan, 1980-2000 is a collection of black-and-white photography
from David Anderson, snapping photos on the aftermath of the new
construction past the 1970s, offering a snapshot of the twilight of
the twentieth century with soulful black-and-white photography,
capturing the details of these buildings. On Wall Street is a must
for historical and architectural photography collections; highly
recommended."-- "Midwest Book Review"
"Anderson had been working as a cinematographer for at least
fifteen years before becoming an architectural photographer in the
early 1980s. He explains in his preface that he decided to document
Wall Street's buildings, knowing that the particular aesthetic and
harmony of their design was not being replicated in newer buildings
and wishing to capture their distinctive geometry and details. The
project took him twenty years. This volume presents his
black-and-white images full page, with an introductory essay by
architecture critic Paul Goldberger."-- "Protoview"
"David Anderson's poignant photographs capture the coldness, power,
and impregnability of the mythical Wall Street. Devoid of the flux
of street movement and crowds, the monuments speak. Creatures keep
watch, frozen in stone, while surprising traces of decay and
delicate detail suggest the contingency, even frailty, of human
existence. Paul Goldberger's masterful introduction guides us as
well in seeing and appreciating this historic citadel of American
finance"--Gail Fenske, author of The Skyscraper and the City: The
Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York and Professor
of Architecture at Roger Williams University
"From 1980 to 2000, photographer David Anderson documented Wall
Street's architecture as few others have. Through an extensive
range of black-and-white images whose focus is equally on the
historic character and iconic nature of the buildings, a real sense
of this famous place emerges. I compare the look and feel of
Anderson's photographs to some of the great urban photographers of
all time: Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, Paul Strand, and, more
recently, Thomas Struth and Bob Thall. On Wall Street will be an
immediate classic that not only appeals to the aesthetic of
architects, historians, and photographers, but also functions at
street level for those who love cities everywhere and, especially,
New York"--William Wylie, author of Cararra and Professor of Art at
the University of Virginia
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