Arabella Schwarzkopf: City Lives

From Rear Window to Friends, city dwellers have been known for a sometimes fervent but typically detached interest in their neighbors. Schwarzkopf breaks the social barriers between apartments by using her camera to facilitate her introduction. She knocks on fellow tenants' doors in New York, Tokyo, Bologna, Vienna, Berlin, Paris and Istanbul. Readers meet the neighbors on their couches and at their kitchen tables, some confident and others timid, and in meeting them see the heart of city life—and striking similarities across Asia, Europe and America. A voyage of discovery to the exotic world next door.