America's past and present seen anew
To the gendarmes of Paris, the bobbies and guardsmen of London and the carabinieri of Rome M. Sasek has added the firemen of New York and a policeman or two... His amusing representational pictures...are stiffer and more formal, but it is still a delight to see ourselves as he sees us. It was the firemen and the tall buildings, which he had to twist his neck to see, that struck him first, then the other big things, a few small ones like Greenwich Village's Macdougal Alley, and the fact that you can shop in any language... His first view of New York is more conventional than his views of other cities... Perhaps M. Sasek will make a longer visit, prowl some more and add intimacies of the city to match the little boy he shows so charmingly in this book feeding peanuts to "New York's huge fluffy squirrels."
Text from America's past and present seen anew, in New York Herald Tribune Book Review, November 13, 1960, p.18.
