Allan Tannenbaum's NEW YORK IN THE 70s: Pictures from the Exhibitions

Allan Tannebaum, award-winning photojournalist and author of New York in the 70s, was recently honored at the Not Fade Away gallery by the New York City Councilmember Alan Gerson with a proclamation for outstanding service to the community through his photography. For a spectacular tour of Allan's recent exhibitions at in New York, Los Angeles and London, click here.

Allan Tannenbaum's NEW YORK IN THE 70s on Display at Not Fade Away Gallery

Only one week left to see Allan Tannenbaum's spectacular photo exhibition New York in the 70s at Not Fade Away gallery in Manhattan. This amazing show features rare shots of musicians, artists, celebrities, politicians, athletes, and an amazing gallery of 24 hour party people. The companion book, New York in the 70s, is available at the gallery and in bookstores everywhere.

See You at Book Expo America 2009!

BEA is here and The Overlook Press is ready, set, go. We're throwing a party tonight for the photo exhibition and book launch of Allan Tannenbaum's New York in the 7os - pics will be posted if you can't make it. On Friday through Sunday, you can meet and greet us at Booth 3552 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York. Meet Rachel DeWoskin, author of Repeat After Me at our booth on Friday (5pm) and at a Saturday Autographing Session (12:30-1pm). Meet the lovely and talented Overlook Editor Juliet Grames at the Indie Buzz Editor's Panel on Saturday at 11am; and Amy Foster, author of the forthcoming When Autumn Leaves at the Downtown Stage on Saturday at 3:30pm, and at the Overlook booth at 5pm.

Remembering NEW YORK IN THE 70s

Here's to New York in the '70s - pictured here is Truman Capote at the bar in Studio 54.

Leonard Quart of the Berkshire Eagle recently reviewed New York in the 70s: "Photographer Allan Tannenbaum's book, New York in the '70s, evokes a world of Puerto Rican street gangs, hotels for the homeless, hookers in Times Square, and rubble-filled South Bronx lots that all existed simultaneously with the transformation of SoHo from a neighborhood of warehouses and the light manufacturing of small machine parts to one of artist lofts and the city's lively art gallery center. In fact, the city's economic decline meant there were many cheap spaces for artists to live and work in that allowed for a great deal of artistic experimentation. The book's photos by Tannenbaum, the Soho Weekly News' photo editor, emphasize that aspect of the '70s, and the sexual adventurism of its intense, burgeoning club life. The '70s also carried over some of the political protest from the '60s. There are photos of anti-Vietnam War protests, demonstrations for the rights of farm workers, and the first big Gay Pride Parade in 1975. The book also contains photos of the city's iconic figures including such disparate personages as Ed Koch and John Lennon, Roy Cohen and Andy Warhol. As one can see, decades defy neat categories. They are a combination of objective facts, and the way we perceive them." - Leonard Quart, Berkshire Eagle

Allan Tannenbaum's NEW YORK IN THE 70s Featured in Paper Cuts

David Kelly at Paper Cuts, the book blog of The New York Times, takes a look at Allan Tannenbaum's New York in the 70s: "Only the 1970s could have brought Yoko Ono and P. J. O’Rourke together. Yoko provides the preface, and P. J. the foreword, for “New York in the 70s,” a new book of eye-catching photographs by Allan Tannenbaum.

As O’Rourke makes clear, that decade produced its share of odd couples (and odd threesomes): How did the 1970s become so wild? The squares did it. They got hip. … No one was too L-7 to be a hepcat. If you doubt it, turn to the last photos and see Roy Cohn, Senator Joe McCarthy’s chief persecutor of degenerate commies, lounging at the Mudd Club between Halston and Steve Rubell. O’Rourke also zeroes in on the practical problems all that widespread hipness created: The essence of hipness — besides sleeping until noon — is a knowing, clued-in superiority to average citizens. However, when the average citizens are hip. … You see the problem the 1970s faced. Everybody was more wised-up than everybody else and nobody was awake to make the bagels."