Every Person in Ne York [Paperback]

Jason Polan is on a mission to draw every person in New York, from cab drivers to celebrities. He draws people eating at Taco Bell, admiring paintings at the Museum of Modern Art, and sleeping on the subway. With a foreword by Kristen Wiig,Every Person in New York, Volume 1collects thousands of Polan's energetic drawings in one chunky book. As full as a phone book and as invigorating as a walk down a bustling New York street, this is a new kind of love letter to a beloved city and the people who live there.Jason Polan is an illustrator whose work has been published in theNew Yorker,Metropolismagazine, and in theNew York Timesas part of a weekly column. He has exhibited work internationally and has also drawn every piece of art in the Museum of Modern Art, twice. He lives in New York, of course.“In 2008, Jason Polan set himself the challenge of drawing every person in New York. Like Sufjan Stevens’s aim to make 50 albums of the United States, it was essentially an impossible project, but what’s come out of it is undoubtedly a success. The artist and Cut collaborator has drawn an impressive 36,000-plus people to date, and those sketches are all compiled inEvery Person in New York,along with a foreword by Kristen Wiig. It’s out on August 18, with a key addendum to its title:Volume 1.Thumb through a copy to find sketches and scrawled captions of New Yorkers waiting in line, subway riders, famous faces, and, if you’ve been to New York City in the last seven years, maybe even yourself.” —New York magazine”Jason Polan’s drawings exude, in unbroken but flexible lines, the momentum of a Manhattan streetscape with only brief moments of stillness. Those pauses can last minutes or over an hour, enough time for fully textured, impressionistic portraits. But more often Mr. Polan’s drawings are of scenes that pass in seconds: a father ordering hot dogslc(