Alex MacLean: Up On The Roof

Date
21 March 2012

Photographer Alex MacLean built his reputation on bearing witness from the sky. His gorgeous new book Up On The Roof focuses on the amazing top-floor world of New York City we may be vaguely aware of but rarely see, from swimming pools to eco-spaces, swanky bars to empty stretches, it’s a fascinating compendium of stunning sky-high imagery. In the foreword, critic Robert Campbell writes that MacLean’s photographs are “full of lessons about how we human beings inhabit our earth – and sometimes about how we mess it up.” A more talented recorder of our social, architectural and environmental preoccupations we could not wish for.

The book is available now from Princeton Architectural Press, priced £35.

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Rob Alderson

Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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