Benjamin Swett

Since making Great Trees of New York City: A Guide for the Parks Department in 2000, I have continued photographing the trees of New York while putting together this new collection of color images, to be published by the Quantuck Lane Press in the spring of 2013. Hundreds of thousands of trees grow along streets and in parks, gardens, cemeteries, and back yards around the five boroughs. I have chosen fifty of them for this new book. They include some of the oldest, largest, and most unusual in the city, but also some lesser-known ones that are typical of their boroughs and neighborhoods. Photography for the project has received support from Furthermore: a project of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

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