"MORE PICTURES FROM MY WINDOW" par Ruth ORKIN. Editions Rizzoli, New York. 1983. Edition originale. Imprimé à Hong-Kong. Grand in-8 carré, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée photo. 144 pages. Textes en anglais de Gordon Davis et de Ruth Orkin, illustré de nombreuses reproductions photographiques, 14 vignettes noir & blanc in-texte, et 129 en couleurs hors texte dont 20 en double page, par Ruth Orkin.

 

"Are they really all from one window? That is the question I've been asked over and over, ever since "A World Through My Window" was published in 1978. The answer, of course, is "Yes!" After my first book was published, people also asked, "Are you going to keep on taking pictures?" Well, the view certainly didn't disappear, so my original reason for shooting still existed. As I collected the 120 photographs for this book, I realized that what has been happening right here under my window, is a microcosm of what's been happening all over the country… Contrary to what could be assumed, I didn't choose this apartment because I wanted to photograph the view. For four years I had been shooting from a second-story brownstone window on West Eighty-eighth Street. I grew very attached to that bay window and the comings and goings of so many people on the street. Now, fifteen stories above Central Park West, everything seemed so far away! ln fact, I wasn't crazy about the immediate view at all. Rather than face the backyard of the Tavern-on-the-Green, I would have preferred something prettier like the Lake around Seventy-third Street. Little did I realize then, that this was where the action was. Sheep Meadow, during the sixties and seventies, had supplanted Times Square as the place for happenings, big and small. So I chose this apartment back in 1955 simply because it was the closest way, in New York City, I could duplicate living on the side of a mountain in Los Angeles - and besides, it was for rent…" Ruth Orkin.

 

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