Lyons, Nathan: Riding First Class on the Titanic: Photographs by Nathan Lyons

Addison Gallery of American Art and MIT Press

1999

First Edition

Taking up where Notations in Passing left off, Riding 1st Class on the Titanic encompasses Nathan Lyons's work from 1974 to the present. Like the earlier book, this one consists primarily of a series of paired images, beautifully sequenced by the photographer, with very little text. Found language, such as that on building facades and signs, plays a prominent role in many of the sequences