New York In The Sixties

With the passing of the twentieth century into history, the 1960s can be confirmed as one of its most crucial decades, an era of unprecedented social and cultural revolution. Certain world cities - London, Paris, New York and San Francisco - were, in their very different ways, at the vanguard of this global ferment.

This exciting series of books reveals the arts, fashions, passions, people and events in each of these cities during this extraordinary era, by means of candid, striking images by contemporary photographers. The selection of photographs has been made with the advantage of hindsight, and offers both insights and several surprises.

New York in the Sixties was the time of Malcolm X, Andy Warhol and the Factory, the Beatles at Shea Stadium, Bob Dylan and the Gaslight District, Muhammad Ali, Woodstock, and Tom Wolfe (as always in his white suit). This book gives a thrilling taste of how it was to live in this seminal decade.