New York City Travel Posters Through the Decades

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Françoise Mouly and Genevieve Bormes on the author Nicholas D. Lowry’s latest book, “Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters,” an art novel.

New York has long loomed large in the traveller’s imagination, most notably in the olden, jet-setting days when getting there was half the fun. A new book, “at Poster House, presents a compelling history of New York City tourism through travel posters. In the retrospective, which starts at the close of the nineteenth century and takes us through the decades, ocean liners give way to airplanes, graphic styles evolve, and skyscrapers climb ever higher.

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