Underground travels on the global metro

"Marco Pesaresi takes us on a wild, underground-railroad ride, with photographs of subway commuters from ten cities around the globe: New York, Tokyo, Moscow, Calcutta, Milan, Mexico City, Paris, London, Berlin, and Madrid. The "getting there" is everything in these pictures. In the grind of the daily commute, Pesaresi finds drama, local color, irony, cultural differences, and a universal sense of anticipation. Laborers wait for the train in bare feet in Calcutta; Muscovites scurry to earn a day's wages under the disapproving scowl of a leftover Lenin mural; a Milanese nun sits in solemn meditation amid the noise and haste of rush-hour traffic. The images speed along as quickly as the trains themselves with complementary texts about each city's subway. In this tumble of tracks, engines, advertisements, and jostled riders, the metro links passengers over vast divides of culture and class."--Jacket.