On The High Line: The Photo Site

An online companion to the book by Annik LaFarge

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Foreword by Rick Darke

Rick Darke's October 2002 photo of the abandoned High Line in today's Tenth Avenue Spur
October 2002, the surreal beauty of the unreconstructed High Line is apparent. Photo: Rick Darke
Jim Shaughnessy’s famous 1957 photo (left) and Rick Darke’s photo taken from the same spot in 2003.Jim Shaughnessy, © Center for Railroad Photography and Art
The West Side Rail Yards on the abandoned High Line. Photo: Rick Darke
New York Central Logo on the High Line
The fading New York Central Logo on the High Line. Photo: Rick Darke
Crop of the word “Parking,” Photo: Rick Darke
Hugh Ferris,
Hugh Ferriss’s charcoal rendering of architect Harvey Wiley Corbett’s “
Proposal to Increase Street Capacity,” from the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs (1923–24).

All from Introducing the High Line

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New Preface to the 3rd Edition

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Prologue

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Foreword by Rick Darke

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Joel Sternfeld

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Designing the High Line

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Piet Oudolf + Plants of the High Line