“城市里的人”系列让罗伯特·隆戈（Robert Longo）于20世纪80年代声名大噪：这一具有传奇色彩的系列画作内容是衣着正式体面的商界人士摆出跳舞一般扭动的姿势，是现代人的一类死亡之舞。此系列创作于1977年到1983年之间，是一种力图融合雕塑、绘画、摄影和电影的早期实验之举。这本书籍展示了艺术家自己拍摄的此系列作品的原始素材。他使用朋友辛迪·舍曼(Cindy Sherman)、Brooke Alexander、Glenn Branca和拉里·高古轩（Larry Gagosian）作为模特，将他们带到自己在纽约市的loft公寓顶楼上，给他们绑上绳子，将物品扔向他们，让他们猛拉、身体猛地一动和下坠——然后拍摄照片。书中涵盖了隆戈其中一位密友国际知名艺术家辛迪·舍曼撰写的序言，还有作家兼剧作家Richard Price在1987年对罗伯特·隆戈进行的采访。

The Men in the Cities series made Robert Longo famous in the 1980s: larger-than-life drawings of sharply dressed business people writhing in contortion, a sort of death dance of the modern man. Created between 1977 and 1983, it is an early attempt in merging sculpture, drawing, photography, and film. This book presents the photographic source material to the series taken by the artist himself. Using friends such as Cindy Sherman, Brooke Alexander, Glenn Branca, and Larry Gagosian as models, he'd bring them up on the roof of his New York City loft, rig up ropes to them and throw objects at them to make
them jerk, fling, and fall--

and take their picture. With a foreword by internationally renowned artist Cindy Sherman, a close friend of Longo's, and an interview with Robert Longo, conducted in 1987 by the author and screenwriter Richard Price.