New York: High Life / Low Life By

The city in its glitziest, strangest decade. New York: High Life / Low Life is photographer Dafydd Jones's stunning archive of 1990s New York — from the gilded society pages of Vanity Fair to the unglamorous streets that ran underneath them.

The author of England: The Last Hurrah arrived in New York at the end of the 1980s, freshly invisible after his years as a Tatler photographer, and was quickly pulled into a world of human tableaux, ladies who lunch, princesses in powder rooms, and dachshunds scrapping over canapés. The book features his portraits of Leona Helmsley, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Imelda Marcos at the height of celebration and unraveling — paired with the ordinary citizens grounded in the daylight beneath. Praised by The Guardian, The Times, and Wallpaper*.

The decade, exactly as it was.