The Men in the Cities series made Robert Longo famous

in the 1980s: larger-than-life drawings of sharply

dressed business people writhing in contortion, a sort

of death dance of the modern man. Created between

1977 and 1983, it is an early attempt in merging

sculpture, drawing, photography, and film.

This book presents the photographic source material

to the series taken by the artist himself. Using friends

such as Cindy Sherman, Brooke Alexander, Glenn

Branca, and Larry Gagosian as models, he'd bring

them up on the roof of his New York City loft, rig up

ropes to them and throw objects at them to make

them jerk, fling, and fall--and take their picture.

With a foreword by internationally renowned artist

Cindy Sherman, a close friend of Longo's, and an

interview with Robert Longo, conducted in 1987 by

the author and screenwriter Richard Price.