A photographic love letter to a pre-9/11 New York City

This volume consists of more than 60 color photographs of New York City between the years 1984 and 1998. Taken by the internationally acclaimed Italian photographer Fulvio Roiter (1926–2016), the images serve as a celebration of the city and people of New York, illustrating their beauty, strength, resilience and hope with a sense of poignant immediacy and timeless elegance. The series recalls a New York that once was, with many shots featuring the city’s instantly recognizable skyline which was irreparably altered by the terrorist attacks that unfolded just a few years later. As the city emerges from yet another collective trauma caused by the Covid pandemic, Roiter’s intimate portrait of New York and its inhabitants stands as a stoic reminder of life after death, of light after darkness.