Invisible City book trailer

This is the official book trailer for a new edition of Invisible City, a photographic book by Ken Schles, published by Steidl in 2014. The book (made from new negative scans) faithfully reproduces the seminal 1988 edition, originally published by Twelvetrees Press. About the book: "The real image of New York is rarely clear to anyone living in it, except as tenacious sensation... [Invisible City is] a picture book that comprehends both the shambles and the thrall..." — Guy Trebay, The Village Voice. "Perhaps one of the greatest portrayals of nocturnal urban life of the 20th Century -- certainly keeping equal company with Brassai's classic Paris de Nuit." — Eric Miles, Photo-Eye. "hellishly brilliant." — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker. A TIME magazine photobook of the year (2014). A New York Times notable book of the Year (1988) and awarded by the AIGA for book design, Invisible City also appears in 802 Photo Books from the M + M Auer Collection, a compendium of books important in the history of photography. 1992 saw Invisible City exhibited in More Than One Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, an exhibit that surveyed the range of photographic practice in various media. There it was the sole representative of the published photographic book. Cited in the seminal Parr/Badger The Photobook: A History Volume III as well as in 10x10 American Photobooks (where it was noted by two photobook experts), Invisible City has proven its place in the canon of the photobook. For a decade Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side neighborhood. His camera fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments became the foundation of his invisible city. Friends and architecture come under the scrutiny of his lens and, when sorted and viewed in the pages of this book, a remarkable achievement of personal vision emerges. Video by Ken Schles Music: Bad Hospital by Mark C and Marnie Greenholz (1984) from Live Skull's Bringing Home The Bait available on Desire Records.