Stanley Greenberg is a Brooklyn-based photographer and author of numerous photography books, including Time Machines (Hirmer Verlag, 2011), Under Construction (University of Chicago Press, 2010), Waterworks- A Photographic Journey Through New York's Hidden Water System (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003), and Invisible New York- The Hidden Infrastructure of the City (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). Greenberg has had one-person exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the MIT Museum, and his work has been included in group shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His pictures are included in the collections of the New York Public Library, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Museum of the City of New York and the Brooklyn Museum. He received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2005. Greenberg has received grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts. He is currently photo blogging infrastructure for Urban Omnibus, the Architectural League of New York's web journal devoted to observing, understanding, and shaping the city (urbanomnibus.net/series/underexposed/).
Stanley Greenberg walked every block in Manhattan, from the Battery to Inwood, river to river, to get the pictures in Codex New York: Typologies of the City. This is what he saw: not the grand vistas that tourists take in from the top of double-decker buses but the details available only to attentive pedestrians - William Meyers, The Wall Street Journal There's no shortage of coffee table books about New York that show off the unmitigated beauty of the city, whether it's new buildings (or ones that have been lost forever), striking interiors, or simply really pretty pictures of the changing seasons. Photographer Stanley Greenberg's latest tome, Codex New York: Typologies of the City, does not depict any of those things. But the New York that it captures - Manhattan, specifically - is no less beautiful, albeit in a more humble sort of way. - Amy Plitt, Curbed