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A Slum City For Slum People: Jacob Riis’ Photos Of New York’s Other Half (1890)

A Slum City For Slum People: Jacob Riis’ Photos Of New York’s Other Half (1890)

In 1870, Danish carpenter Jacob Riis, 21, took his berth in steerage on the Iowa and ...
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Life Escapes Books In An Explosion Of Flora And Fauna

Life Escapes Books In An Explosion Of Flora And Fauna

Andrea Mastrovito transforms hundreds of text books into striking installations. Two dimensional images become alive: butterflies swarm, a ...
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‘The Only Constant is Change’ – Meryl Meisler’s photographs of Bushwick, New York

‘The Only Constant is Change’ – Meryl Meisler’s photographs of Bushwick, New York

New York is unsentimental. It pushes and pulls, attracts and repels. The only constant is change. ...
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Portraits Of Ellis Island Immigrants In Color (1907)

Portraits Of Ellis Island Immigrants In Color (1907)

These photographs show a tiny handful of the more than 12 million immigrants who entered ...
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Twenty Wonderful Vivian Maier Self-Portraits

Twenty Wonderful Vivian Maier Self-Portraits

Well, I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for ...
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Color Slides of New York City, April 1979

Color Slides of New York City, April 1979

"I have never returned to New York so my view of the city is stuck ...
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Berenice Abbott’s New York Stores  (1930s)

Berenice Abbott’s New York Stores (1930s)

Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer renowned for ...
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Sassy Women In 1970s New York Purgatory, By Meryl Meisler

Sassy Women In 1970s New York Purgatory, By Meryl Meisler

  "You can never go to heaven, the best you can do is purgatory” That ...
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Only The Dead Know Brooklyn: Irwin Klein’s ‘Bensonhoist’ Color Views of Brooklyn (1972-1974)

Only The Dead Know Brooklyn: Irwin Klein’s ‘Bensonhoist’ Color Views of Brooklyn (1972-1974)

Alan Klein writes of his brother Irwin Klein: "In one of Irwin’s last letters to ...
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People Of Tompkins Square Park, New York City, Summer of Love 1967

People Of Tompkins Square Park, New York City, Summer of Love 1967

In 1967, deep into the Summer of Love, James Jowers (American b. 1938) took these ...
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New York 1982 / 1983: Before Big Money Buried The City’s Character

New York 1982 / 1983: Before Big Money Buried The City’s Character

In many ways New York City is a very different place to how it was ...
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Nils T. Granlund And His Colony Of Naked Sun Worshippers Star At New York’s World Fair (1939)

Nils T. Granlund And His Colony Of Naked Sun Worshippers Star At New York’s World Fair (1939)

In 1939, the New York World's fair hosted a display by the NTG Sun Worshippers. ...
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