Hardcover: 348 pages

Publisher: Gingko Press Inc. (November 20, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1584236043

ISBN-13: 978-1584236047

Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 11.8 x 1.3 inches

杰姆斯和卡拉默里自上世纪90年代开始摄影捕捉纽约市的大街小巷；店面二记述了他们继续努力记录鲜为人知但极其重要的横截面纽约的夫妻店经济。作者的穿透性照片只是故事的一半，虽然。在他们的旅行整个城市的过程中的行政区作者都采取了非常注意记录风光背后的故事。他们的丰富背景文稿，主要是从商店的业主和从业人员的采访收集的，带来美妙的色彩和独特的一次性设施的重要精微玄妙之处。作者已呈现出独特的酒窖，糖果店和唱片店就像忠实于历史上重要的机构和知名餐馆，酒吧和咖啡馆。从石墙酒吧到布朗斯威尔的自行车店,粉红色猫咪到史密斯和Wolensky；作者透露了纽约长期的夫妻档生意站在城市快速发展中间形成强烈的反差。

James and Karla Murray have been capturing impeccable photographs from the streets of New York City since the 1990s; Store Front II chronicles their continued efforts to document a little-known but vitally important cross-section of New York's Mom and Pop economy. The Murrays' penetrating photographs are only half the story, though. In the course of their travels throughout the city's boroughs the Murrays have taken great care to document the stories behind the scenery. Their copious background texts, gleaned largely from interviews with the stores' owners and employees, bring wonderful color and nuance to the importance of these unique one-off establishments. The Murrays have rendered the out of the way bodegas, candy shops and record stores just as faithfully as the historically important institutions and well known restaurants, bars and cafes. From the Stonewall Inn to the Brownsville Bike Shop and The Pink Pussycat to Smith and Wolensky, the Murrays reveal how New York's long-standing mom & pop businesses stand in sharp contrast to the city's rapidly evolving corporate facade.

James and Karla Murray are New York basedprofessional photographers and authors. The authors' landmark 2008 book, Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, was cited in Bookforum as one of the "Exemplary Art Books From The Past Two Decades." New YorkNights was the winner of theprestigious New York Society Library's 2012 New York City Book Award. James and Karla Murray's work has been exhibited widely in major institutions and galleries including the Brooklyn Historical Society and The New-York Historical Society and included in the permanent collections of major institutions such as NYU Langone Medical Center, The Brooklyn Historical Society and the New York Public Library.  James and Karla live in Manhattan with their dog Hudson.

"Mom and Pop shops--small, family-run businesses--are dying off in New York City at an alarming rate. They are being squeezed out by gentrification, skyrocketing rents, and competition by big impersonal chains. And so far Mayor Bill de Blasio seems disinclined to do anything about it.

That's why James and Karla Murray's new coffee table-sized book, Store Front II: A History Preserved, is so crucial. Like anthropologists rushing to document an isolated Amazonian tribe before civilization encroaches, the Murrays are racing to record Mom and Pop shops before the wrecking ball arrives.

The Murrays' first volume, Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, was published in 2000; a depressing two-thirds of its subjects no longer exist. Store Front II just came out this year, but already an alarming one-fifth of its contents have closed.

If you are a longtime New Yorker, the experience of reading Store Front II is like perusing the most beautiful old family photography album in the world. On every other page are beloved but deceased relatives." - Huffington Post

"In 2008, photographers James and Karla Murray publishedStore Front: The Disappearing Face of New York. That book garnered much praise, both as art and as documentation of endangered mom-and-pop businesses in New York. Adding poignancy to the images are many examples of the disappearances of such shops in recent years, victims of rising commercial rents, gentrification, and corporate retail encroachment. The threat is real: almost two-thirds of the businesses photographed in the Murrays' first book have vanished in the short time since its publication. They continue their project with this follow-up effort, covering all five of New York's boroughs (Manhattan and Brooklyn receive the most attention). The subtitle of this new volume speaks to their desire to preserve the businesses, if only in photos. Troubling urban politics aside, the images are beautiful and so precise (the oversized format helps, too) that readers will get lost in them, savoring the weathered facades; hand-lettered signs; neon; awnings; and crowded window displays. VERDICT Fans of fine photography, and those concerned about urban issues will find much to absorb here." - The Library Journal