Selected as one of the best photography book of 2015 by Wall Street Journal, The City is a Novel is the first major monograph devoted to photographer Alexey Titarenko. Published in Italy by Damiani editore, the book features over 140 photographs of Titarenko's work in St. Petersburg, Venice, Havana, and New York from 1975 to 2014. The City is a Novel also includes a short autobiographical story City of Shadows and essays by curator, writer, and art historian Gabriel Bauret; Brett Abbott, curator of photography at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Sean Corcoran, curator of prints and photographs at the Museum of the City of New York.
