Welcome to In Focus, a feature where writer Hannah Frishberg profiles some of the great street photographers of New York City's past and present. It's intriguing. It's real. There's just so much out ...
The 1980s art scene, like many aspects of New York City life in that decade, is infamous for its wild parties, buzzy celebrities who palled around with A-list artists, and an aura of general glitz and ...
We recently rediscovered Steven Siegel's amazing archive of photos from old New York, specifically from the 1980s, and decided to ask him for his thoughts and reflections about his work as well as the ...
A Peculiar Paradise: Florida Photographs features Nathan Benn's early 1980s photographs of dreams and debauchery in the Sunshine State. A rather grisly human torso washed ashore on a Miami beach does ...
In the 1980s, photographer Steven Siegel captured the city through its many layers of grit and gloom—from the subways to the burned out buildings to the abandoned waterfronts, the most striking images ...
Edward Grazda’s new book, “Asia Calling: A Photographer’s Notebook 1980-1997,” (powerHouse Books, 2021) contains very few words. Rather, this is chiefly a book of Grazda’s impressions gleaned over a ...
It would be easy to look at Janet Delaney’s photographs of the Mission District, taken in the 1980s when she lived above Cesar Chavez Street, and pine for a San Francisco that has disappeared. It ...
STATEN ISLAND, NY — For Christine Osinski, it wasn't easy moving to Staten Island in the early 1980s. When she realized she'd be trading her NoHo loft for a quiet cul-de-sac in New Brighton, the ...
It was a time when feathered hair, leg warmers and roller skating to songs like “Mickey” and “Jessie’s Girl” were all the rage. Who can forget the ’80s? Photography majors at Rochester Institute of ...