Jun 23, 2016
CITY ON FIRE - Garth Risk Hallberg
City on Fire is an epic novel of 1970’s New York which received rave reviews in hardback.
We decided to take a photographic approach for the paperback cover of City on Fire, and have reproduced an image by Swiss photographer René Burri (1933 – 2014). Burri was part of the prestigious Magnum Photos cooperative. He is well-known for his black and white photographic portraits of Che Guevara and Picasso, but his use of colour was exceptional too and can be seen in this wonderful photograph of New York in the snow with the bright yellow taxi. More of his work can be seen here
The paperback edition of City on Fire is published today by Vintage Books.
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