Old School Culture In The 70s And 80s Awesome Photos Of New York S Top 12 street photographers who captured the grit of new york in the 70s and 80s. images via (l r clockwise): janet delaney, bruce davidson, martha cooper, jack garofalo. the 1970s and 1980s were gritty, exciting times in new york city. manhattan pulsed with energy, with different sides of the city revealing danger and opulence. Legendary new york based fashion, documentary and street photographer jamel shabazz has been scanning the scenes of new york city for about 40 years now, reflecting its lifestyles, moods, fashions, and social struggles. jamel shabazz's work goes far beyond photography, it is pure sociological documentation which has immortalized decades of new york city’s culture. in the early ’80s.
ù ø ø ø ø ø øª ðÿ î Oldî î Schoolî 60s î 70sî î 80sî 90s ø ù ù ø ø ø ø ø ù ù ø ùšù ø 60 ø ø ù ùšø 7 In the 1970s, new york city was a broken, ungovernable metropolis barreling into anarchy. new yorkers remember this decade as the bleakest, most crime ridden, and most uncertain time the city has ever faced. it was a time of economic, criminal, and cultural shifts occurring at once that changed the city’s prospects. Legendary new york street photographer bruce gilden walked the best of them in the 70s and 80s—the squalid, vibrant new york in the decades before reaganomics trickled down to street level and wiped out its local culture. “the city is soulless to me now,” gilden tells the washington post. “there’s a lot of moving around but i don’t. Jamel shabazz’s work goes far beyond photography, it is pure sociological documentation which has immortalized decades of new york city’s culture. in the early ’80s, shabazz borrowed his mother’s inexpensive point and shoot camera, and with just the basic knowledge of the craft he learned from his professional photographer father. Commuters on the staten island ferry in new york harbor's upper bay, in may of 1973. a fire hydrant sprays water behind three young girls on bond street in brooklyn, july 1974. an oil slick.
Welcome To New York The City Of Dreams In The 70s And 80s вђ In Jamel shabazz’s work goes far beyond photography, it is pure sociological documentation which has immortalized decades of new york city’s culture. in the early ’80s, shabazz borrowed his mother’s inexpensive point and shoot camera, and with just the basic knowledge of the craft he learned from his professional photographer father. Commuters on the staten island ferry in new york harbor's upper bay, in may of 1973. a fire hydrant sprays water behind three young girls on bond street in brooklyn, july 1974. an oil slick. In the new book, new york 1970s 1980s (café royal books), corrance revisits his archive to create a joyous celebration of street life: everything from scenes of old men gathered to play backgammon at card tables, to artists painting en plein air, and rollerskaters pausing for a quick stretch outside the guggenheim museum. central park. Jamel shabazz. double trouble, 1981. galerie bene taschen. sold. picturing kids wearing wide rimmed square glasses and striped shirts, hanging out on bikes, or holding boomboxes on graffitied new york subway cars, shabazz’s photographs are unequivocally of a certain era. beginning in the early ’80s, the brooklyn born artist, then in his.
1000 Images About Nyc On Pinterest New York City New York And Nyc In the new book, new york 1970s 1980s (café royal books), corrance revisits his archive to create a joyous celebration of street life: everything from scenes of old men gathered to play backgammon at card tables, to artists painting en plein air, and rollerskaters pausing for a quick stretch outside the guggenheim museum. central park. Jamel shabazz. double trouble, 1981. galerie bene taschen. sold. picturing kids wearing wide rimmed square glasses and striped shirts, hanging out on bikes, or holding boomboxes on graffitied new york subway cars, shabazz’s photographs are unequivocally of a certain era. beginning in the early ’80s, the brooklyn born artist, then in his.
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