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Review
from Bicycling.com
New York Alleycats Photo Book
Bicycling.com, February 16, 2007
New York
based photographer Amy Bolger's book New York Alleycats is a pictorial
documentary of the bike messenger race scene in "the City"
By Bill Strickland
Alleycats are unofficial yet ultra-competitive races
organized by bike messengers in, mostly, big cities. New York-based
photographer Amy Bolger, who has worked at six messenger companies since
1998 (and came in third overall in the first Monster Track, a New York race that
forbids brakes), documents the entire scene in her 61-page photo book
entitled New York Alleycats. What's not immediately noticeable but becomes,
upon repeated browsing, the coolest feature is how few of the pictures are
actual riding shots. Bolger vividly and candidly captures the spectrum of
the community, personalities, environment and spirit of these freewheeling,
non-freewheel races. Spend some time browsing Bolger's work at
www.amybolger.com (where you might be able to buy the book by the time you
read this), then click over to one of the online bookstores to get the real
deal.
Contact: AmyBolger.com
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