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Interview With Claire Yaffa, Photographer of Children With AIDS: Spirit and Memory
On June 7, AIDS in New York: The First Five Years opens at the New-York Historical Society. The new exhibit will explore the impact the epidemic had on personal lives, public health, and politics from 1981-1985. The companion exhibition Children With AIDS: Spirit and Memory. Photographs by Claire Yaffa will feature twenty photographs by the acclaimed [...]
Tracking Time
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and our new exhibition, The Dream Continues: Photographs of Martin Luther King Murals by Vergara, we present “Tracking Time,” written by photographer Camilo Vergara. Here, he speaks about his decades of documenting America’s poor urban communities, and how he became a “builder of virtual cities.” For more than [...]
Harlem Then and Now: Interview With Camilo José Vergara
Photographer Camilo José Vergara has been documenting the neighborhood of Harlem for nearly four decades, chronicling the changes, both good and bad, that have come to the area. Through his lens he has served as an almost impartial observer, cataloging storefronts and street corners as they open and close, letting the viewer see the changes [...]
Bill Cunningham Sees The Whimsy In New York’s Fashion And Architecture
New York Fashion Week is a time when the fashion world comes together to showcase how they’re moving couture forward. However, as avant-garde as fashion may get, there is always inspiration to be found in the past. Photographer Bill Cunningham made that apparent in his “Façades” project, where model Editta Sherman (aka the “Duchess of [...]
Remembering 9/11: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Most people can tell you exactly what happened to them on September 11, 2011. They remember the weather, or what they had for lunch, or the look on their neighbor’s face as the two watched smoke billowing from downtown Manhattan. The attacks of 9/11 affected everyone differently, and that is what the New-York Historical Society [...]
