The Importants

As featured in The Globe & Mail, The New York Times, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, W Magazine, and on American Photo, Cool Hunting, Crave, The Cut, DazedDigital, Highsnobiety, Refinery29, Slate, and TIME Lightbox

"The design of Amato's book flows seamlessly with the energy of his photographs. A constantly moving layout, images dance across the pages, overlap, and bleed into one another; never creating a consistent pattern for the reader." -TIME

"Amato is a pioneer...The gold hardcover [is] a celebration of diversity and fluidity." -Cool Hunting

"Bringing street to art (and inversely, art to street) is his forte, and in a sparkling, gilded journal containing his most prized and expressive photos, his spirit and talent are both showcased and immortalized in print for the first time." -Milk Studios

"New beautiful gold book." -American Photo

"[A] delightfully gaudy, bright gold volume that is part retrospective of his work, part mood board, and part bible of youth culture." -Highsnobiety

"Amato follows the generation of photographers before him, including Nan Goldin, Larry Clark and Ryan McGinley, who were interested in capturing new faces. For Amato, "the importants" are young New Yorkers that exemplify diversity and inclusivity." -JocksAndNerds.com

"This set unfolds a like a multi-layered onion of surprises." -American Photo