New York/Los Angeles, Photographs: 1967-2015 is a remarkable collection of images of America’s two most interesting cities, as seen through the eye of photographer and award-winning art director Lloyd Ziff. Taken over some 40 years, this 2 volume collection captures both cities in compelling black and white and color photography.
Lloyd Ziff's work has a Proustian quality recording how life is and was, at a particular time. His gentle humanity will not permit his ego to come in between him and his subject. For my generation there is a nostalgia with black and white photography as there is with black and white film, it has the veracity of 'breaking news', the truth. Remarkably this veracity is not diminished by Lloyd's move into colour. His images can have the illusion of a snapshot yet this immediacy conceals a formidably visual talent. Like the tightrope walker who makes something difficult seem easy, Lloyd's photographs have a simple directness.
– Allen Jones RA, Artist
To be frank, who would have known Lloyd would be a master in the light touch. Real open and breezy, lots of room for people to get lost. When I look at them, I feel warm. They make me want to go home.
– Diane Keaton, Actress, Director, Author, Photographer
These pictures are about seeing clearly and about the relief and comfort that photographs can summon up, after the color and the clamor of commerce is let behind.
– Marvin Heiferman, photography curator and autho
Publication date: Summer 2016
Size: 9.5 in x 12 in
Pages: 2 x 104 page volumes in case, printed on heavy matte paper,
enclosed in a board slipcover
Images: 59 color, 107 b&w
ISBN: 9780989885621
Pages: 104, printed on heavy matte paper
Images: 30 color, 54 b&w
ISBN: 9780990790846
Pages: 104, printed on heavy matte paper
Images: 29 color, 53 b&w
ISBN: 9780990790853
Brilliant!!!! Honestly, it is the best photography I have seen in a long, long time. I am knocked out. Both volumes take my breath away. And, how well they work together: West Coast/East Coast, left and right, red and blue, black and white. This an incredible body of work, perfectly presented.
– Gail Buckland, Author, Educator, Curator of Photography
Lloyd and I go back over forty years, and his photographs, like Lloyd, are kind of shy. They seem to focus ultimately on the infinite, the horizon line. I own at least two of Lloyd's pictures, and I keep them with me, usually by a window because the photographs themselves are picture windows; they view a life of romance, escape and optimism. They give me a way out. I love Lloyd for most of the same reasons.
– Annie Leibovitz, Photographer
Lloyd Ziff’s New York is an intriguingly idiosyncratic portrait of the city he has photographed over four decades. He ranges freely. Unconfined by time or subject, he randomly enriches our idea of what the city represents.
– Sir Harold Evans, Journalist, Writer, Editor
Since 2000, Lloyd Ziff has made photography the sole focus of his career. He has had one man shows in New York City at Danziger Gallery and Robin Rice Gallery, and Earl McGrath Gallery in Los Angeles.
His book of photographs, Near North, Photographs of Alaska and The Yukon, was published in 2010, and his photographs have been included in Patti Smith’s autobiography, Just Kids, and the anthologies American Photography, Graphis Photography, and The Spirit of Family, by Al and Tipper Gore.
Ziff’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of The Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, and The International Center of Photography, New York, New York, as well as having been published in many of the world’s most prestigious magazines including Blind Spot, The New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Interview, Kid’s Wear (Germany), LA-The Los Angeles Times Magazine, New York, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Wired.
Before he became known as a photographer, Ziff was an award-winning art director/design director of magazines, including Vanity Fair, House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveler, New West, and Rolling Stone. Ziff taught magazine design, photography, and illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena, California, The School of Visual Arts in New York City, and for 13 years at Parsons School of Design in New York City.
In 1999, he was elected to the Board of Trustees of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, his alma mater (1967).