Night Walk book trailer

This is the official book trailer for Night Walk, a photographic book by Ken Schles, published by Steidl in 2014. About the book: Twenty-five years after the printing of his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City (see http://youtu.be/oa1AaRiVmPw), Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the evening air of an irretrievable Downtown New York as he saw and experienced it. Night Walk is a substantive, intimate chronicle of New York's last pre-Internet bohemian outpost, a stream of consciousness portrayal that peels back layers of petulance and squalor to find the frisson and striving of a life lived amongst the rubble. Here, Schles embodies the flâneur as Sontag defines it, as a "connoisseur of empathy," "cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes." We see in Night Walk a new and revelatory Ulysses for the 21st century: a searching tale of wonder and desire, life and love in the dying hulk of a ruined American city. "I lay these fragments before you. What has since been rebuilt now reverts back to its former state of skeletal ruin. The dead reappear, hurry about and whisper their siren songs into your ear." -- Ken Schles from the introduction of Night Walk. Night Walk is dedicated to the memory of those who died in the scourge of AIDS and violence that gripped the East Village during the 1980s. Selected a TIME magazine best photobook of 2014 Video by Ken Schles Music: 100% by Sonic Youth licensed through Universal Music Group. Special thanks to Lee Ranaldo.