Humans of New York (Humans of New York, 1)

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Of a young couple in love: “They were happy with how this photo came out, if the shrieking was any indication”. He slowly started building on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram where he now has over eight million followers. In HONY, there is often a caption with only a sentence or two while HONY: Stories, each story was usually a paragraph long. Instead of focusing on individualism, Stanton specific captions in the pictures displayed humanity uniqueness that coexistent overall as a whole piece. illustrated paper covered boards, hardcover; 428 pages; black and white and color photographic illustrations; very good in a lightly edgeworn velum dust jacket.

Too many beautiful pictures are broken awkwardly over the gutter, destroying their impact, and the squat, vertical trim is all wrong for showing photographs. One of the great joys, after all, of looking at a portrait is the imperfectible act of reading a face. Each image portrays emotion with a limitation of word format letting the reader express his/her interpretation of the image. So he decided to set aside his doctoral dissertation and belatedly prepare for medical school, which “would allow me a chance to find answers that are not in books, to find a different sort of sublime, to forge relationships with the suffering, and to keep following the question of what makes human life meaningful, even in the face of death and decay.The series partnered with the nonprofit, Headstrong Project, to highlight the mental health struggles veterans experience. The book’s beginnings can be found online, where Stanton now has over 18 million followers on Facebook. A Number One New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York began in the summer of 2010, when photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City.

But soon after it went to print, it became obvious that another book was waiting to be made—one that includes the in-depth storytelling that the blog is known for today. Many of my GR friends have exclaimed about the talent of Brandon Stanton and his project Humans of New York. I absolutely LOVE this book and so does all of my family, from my little brother to my grandparents. Humans of New York had long existed as a blog with tens of thousands of loyal followers by the time I discovered this book.After he married, the author’s world widened again in New York, and later in Paris, where he finally felt extricated from white America’s exploitative, consumerist dreams.