{"id":79300,"date":"2026-06-05T13:10:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/uk\/book\/portrait-of-a-city\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:11:49","slug":"portrait-of-a-city","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/uk\/book\/portrait-of-a-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of a City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography<\/em><\/strong> traces a century of American urban life through the camera lens, from Alfred Stieglitz&rsquo;s early Modernist visions to Bruce Davidson&rsquo;s immersive Subway photographs of the 1980s. Published to accompany the exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, the book brings together works by some of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Helen Levitt, Saul Leiter, Garry Winogrand and Bruce Davidson. Across themes of immigration, labour, inequality, counterculture and community, the city emerges as both backdrop and protagonist in the story of modern America. Combining iconic images with new scholarship, the publication explores photography&rsquo;s dual role as artistic expression and social document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major survey of twentieth-century American photography, exploring the modern city through iconic works by Stieglitz, Lange, Arbus, Davidson and others. Published to accompany an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, running from July 28 to October 4, 2026.<br \/>Foreword<br \/>\nA Land Which Reached for the Sky: How Photography Shaped Our Understanding of the American City<br \/>\nThe Simultaneity of the Non-Simultaneous: &Eacute;douard Manet and American Street Photography<br \/>\nBibliography<br \/>\nNotes<br \/>\nIndex<br \/>\nImage Credits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":79301,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5485],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79300","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-photography","7":"author-by-photographer-alexander-moore","8":"author-contributions-by-nils-ohlsen","9":"publisher-dulwich-picture-gallery","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Portrait of a City - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: Portrait of a City, Pages: 208 Pages, Publish Date: 20th Jul 2026, Author: By (photographer) Alexander Moore, Contributions by Nils Ohlsen, ISBN: 9781898519553. 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