{"product_id":"nineteen-reservoirs-on-their-creation-and-the-promise-of-water-for-new-york-city-9781615198658","title":"Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City","description":"From 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engineering served to meet New York City's ever-increasing need for water, sustaining its inhabitants and cementing it as a center of industry. West of the Hudson, it meant that twenty-six villages, with their farms, forest lands, orchards, and quarries, were bought for a fraction of their value, demolished, and submerged, profoundly altering ecosystems in ways we will never fully appreciate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This paradox of victory and loss is at the heart of \u003ci\u003eNineteen Reservoirs\u003c\/i\u003e, Lucy Sante's meticulous account of how New York City secured its seemingly limitless fresh water supply, and why it cannot be taken for granted. In inimitable form, Sante plumbs the historical record to surface forgotten archives and images, bringing lost places back to life on the page. Her immaculately calibrated sensitivity honors both perspectives on New York City's reservoir system and helps us understand the full import of its creation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An essential history of the New York City region that will reverberate far beyond it, \u003ci\u003eNineteen Reservoirs\u003c\/i\u003e examines universal divisions in our resources and priorities--between urban and rural, rich and poor, human needs and animal habitats. This is an unmissable account of triumph, tragedy, and unintended consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWith 29 present-day photographs by Tim Davis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucy Sante \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Verviers, Belgium, and is the author of ten books, her first being \u003ci\u003eLow Life\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 1991). Sante's other books include \u003ci\u003eEvidence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Factory of Facts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKill All Your Darlings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFolk Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaybe the People Would Be the Times, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eI Heard Her Call My Name\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, Guggenheim and Cullman fellowships, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), and an Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography. Sante has contributed to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003esince 1981 and to many other publications. She recently retired after 24 years teaching at Bard College. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Davis \u003c\/b\u003estudied photography at Bard College, graduating in 1991. He pursued a career as a poet and editor in New York before returning to photography, receiving an MFA from Yale University in 2001. He has since had solo shows in Brussels, Geneva, Whitecube in London, Milan, and New York, including a recent exhibition at the Bohen Foundation. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim, Whitney, Brooklyn, and Metropolitan Museums in New York; the Milwaukee Museum of Art; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Baltimore Museum; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and numerous others. His fourth book of photographs and essays, \u003ci\u003eI'm Looking Through You\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Aperture in May 2021. He teaches photography at Bard College. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Experiment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615928291602,"sku":"9781615198658","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d16c5d00-e596-4ca8-8a0e-f6154e057cff.jpg?v=1732500299","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nineteen-reservoirs-on-their-creation-and-the-promise-of-water-for-new-york-city-9781615198658","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}