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Renowned documentary photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont has been a transplanted resident from Paris to New York City since 1965. In addition to his travels that have documented the entirety of America and its social forces, as well as those around the world, Laffont has squarely focused his camera on his new ""hometown"" New York City. Organized into three parts (The City Never Sleeps, The Movers and Shakers, and The Mean Streets), New York City Up and Down is an elegant, incisive, and unexpected review of forty years of exploration by one of the most revered documentarians working today.

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""This is a book not to be missed by anyone who has ever visited, would like to visit, has lived in or has any curiosity at all about the ""real"" New York City as seen through the eyes of a true visionary.""--Yahoo News, 7/28/17 Laffont and his camera seemed to be here, there and everywhere all at once, capturing an indelible visual record of Balzacian dimensions.--Dean Brierly ""Black & White Magazine "" ""You want an evocative, personal look at New York during the good old bad days of New York in the '60s into the '80s, well, this is for you--a real treat.""--Alex Belth ""The Stacks, 8/14/17 9:11am "" And what's black and white and flashy all over? Famed photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont's New York City Up and Down.--Sloane Crosley ""Vanity Fair ""

And what's black and white and flashy all over? Famed photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont's New York City Up and Down.--Sloane Crosley Vanity Fair You want an evocative, personal look at New York during the good old bad days of New York in the '60s into the '80s, well, this is for you--a real treat. --Alex Belth The Stacks, 8/14/17 9:11am

And what's black and white and flashy all over? Famed photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont's New York City Up and Down.--Sloane Crosley Vanity Fair You want an evocative, personal look at New York during the good old bad days of New York in the '60s into the '80s, well, this is for you--a real treat. --Alex Belth The Stacks, 8/14/17 9:11am Laffont and his camera seemed to be here, there and everywhere all at once, capturing an indelible visual record of Balzacian dimensions.--Dean Brierly Black & White Magazine

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Jean-Pierre Laffont attended the School of Graphic Art in Vevey, Switzerland, where he received his Master's in Photography, prior to serving in the French Army during the Algerian War (for which he received an award for his humanitarian efforts). He is a founding member of the Gamma USA and Sygma Photo News agencies. For more than four decades, Laffont traveled the globe and created work that was published in the world's leading news magazines, including Figaro, London Sunday Times, Newsweek, Paris Match, Stern, and Time. Among the numerous awards Laffont has received are the Overseas Press Club of America's Madeline Dane Ross Award, the World Press Photo General Picture Award, University of Missouri's World Understanding Award, and an award from the New York Newspaper Guild. In 1996 he was honored with the National French Order of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (a Knight in the National French Order of Arts and Letters). He resides in New York City with his wife and editor, Eliane. Joan Juliet Buck is an

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