Part 2 of Frank Horvat’s Up and Down, a study of New York City in the 1980s. In the first section we featured years 1980-1983. We now look at 1984-1986.
“…what I tried to convey by the words ‘up and down’. The highs and lows of New York are not just the transitions from Uptown to Downtown, from the darkness of the subway to the view from the top floors of the skyscrapers, from the temperatures in January to those in July. But also the shifts, between one day and the next and sometimes between one minute and the other, from exhilaration to disappointment, from triumph to failure, from fulfilment to defeat.” – Frank Horvat
The pictures in the gallery below capture the sprit and substance of the world’s greatest city.
1984, New York, balloons in the subway
1984, New York, bus with steam
1984, New York, woman in a cafeteria
1984, New York, uptown West side, at daybreak
1984, New York, private detectives
1984, New York, Central Park, two ladies
1984, New York, father and son in the subway
1984, New York, graffiti (a)
1984, New York, ladies in the sunshine
1984, New York, picnic in Central Park
1984, New York, building model
1984, New York, steam
1984, New York, red and grey
1984, New York, homeless woman asleep at a table
1984, New York, Times Square in snow storm
1984, New York, steam jet in the morning sun
1984, New York, sleeper in the subway
1984, New York, sweater with dolls
1984, New York, wall, ladder, graffiti
1984, New York, mural painting
1984, New York, World Trade Towers in a cloud
1984, New York, bus in snow storm
1985, New York, two couples
1985, New York, funeral home’s delivery boy
1985, New York, reflections
1985, New York, dripping on the asphalt
1985, New York, sandwich man
1985, New York, small restaurant
1985, New York, the World Trade Center in a puddle
1986, New York, money is everything
1986, New York, vacant lot and graffiti
1986, New York, woman in a park
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