Thursday 03.17.2011 | 12:23 AM EDT

Coming Soonish: NYC At Your Feet

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Well, I’ve been talking about it for almost 10 years, but it seems I’ve finally got my ass in gear.
And thus begins the early campaign for a decade’s worth of from-the-hip, below the waist photo treats going public in print and digital this spring. And by public I mean anyone who stumbles across maunet or happens to be friend or family enough for the book to bear out as gift or purchase. And by spring I mean probably early summer. You see, with the help of the good folks at blurb.com, this is a self-published affair. Voyeuristic, narcissistic – what’s the difference…

“Walk On The Wild Side” | Lou Reed

From the introduction:

The idea for this book began taking shape in October 1999 upon moving to New York City,
a town renowned equally for it’s eclectic style and harshness of character.

A place where, generally, we don’t make eye contact.

Sitting in a subway car, we follow protocol. Hunched against the winter wind,
our gaze drops to the ground beneath our feet. Our field of vision is self-limited
to that narrow frame between the pockmarked sidewalk and the waistlines of
our fellow New Yorkers. Through this lens we gather our first concrete observations,
draw initial conclusions about the kind of person passing by us might be.
Where they dine. Where they dance. Where they work and play.

Ok, so it needs some work. That’s what I’m doing. I’ve made enough contact prints to paper the wall of my apartment. Becca Black and Brady Spud have graciously helped me edit down from 500 shots to a mere 50 spreads celebrating the fashion foot. Building the layout’s a bitch. Sequencing it ain’t nothin’ like making a mix tape. Ok, something like it, but, um, harder. And there’s this whole InDesign thing, which quite unlike Photoshop, makes me feel small and stupid.

But it’s well on its way. Check back soon-ish.

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