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The New York City subway in the late 1970s and 1980s was a world unto itself. It was a microcosm of the city above, reflecting its grit, its diversity, and its unyielding energy. It was also a place of stark contrasts, where the glamour of the city rubbed shoulders with its darker side.
16 lut 2018 · Photographer Helen Levitt chronicled the NYC in the 1970s through her candid subway photography. The black and white photos are a discreet look at the everyday folks who rode the subway, from canoodling couples to those lost in thought.
21 sty 2019 · 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.
30 lis 2020 · The 1970s were known as the Subway Graffiti era in New York City. Here, you can see riders in 1976, surrounded by drawings in a train car.
16 gru 2021 · In Episode Thirty-Nine, NYPL curator Julie Golia and Kim Phillips-Fein, Professor of History at New York University, explored a collection of evocative photographs of the New York City subway system in the 1970s by Alen MacWeeney, discussing what the images reveal about the city during a decade of crisis and transformation.
11 maj 2017 · Swiss photo reporter Willy Spiller captured the grit of the NYC subway in the 70s and 80s during his work commute. Check out the pics.
6 lip 2012 · These photographs of the New York City subway system were taken mostly from the 1970s and early '80s, when graffiti was a mainstay on train cars and everything underground was, for the most part, grittier and more worn than it is today...
