Stirring Images From Longtime Village Voice Photographer Capture 1950s-1970s NYC
19 photos
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States, an estimated twenty thousand women march along Fifth Ave., here past a banner that reads, ‘‘Women of the World Unite!”, August 26, 1970<br/>
Eighth Street, looking east from Sixth Avenue, January 1, 1950 Vintage gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950<br/>
Reading copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" on the couch at Fred W. McDarrah's apartment, 304 West 14th Street, New York City, February 14, 1959<br/>
Timothy Leary sits on the stage at the Village Theater, 105 Second Ave., as he hosts his multimedia presentation Illumination of the Buddha, December 6, 1966<br/>
Bob Dylan, sitting on a bench in Christopher Park (across the street from the offices of the Village Voice since 1960), either salutes or shields his eyes from the sun, January 22, 1965<br/>
Allen Ginsberg, his longtime companion Peter Orlovsky, and Orlovsky’s brother Lafcadio relax in their apartment at 170 East Second Street, January 9, 1960<br/>
A crowd of demonstrators in Chicago’s Grant Park during the Democratic National Convention, sitting around a hill topped by a statue of Union General John Logan, August 27, 1968<br/>
Guests sit on a mattress and on the floor at a birthday party for Ted Joans, July 25, 1959 Vintage gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1959<br/>
Painter Philip Guston in his studio on East Eighth Street, April 14, 1961<br/>
Pop artists Tom Wesselmann, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, and Claes Oldenburg at Warhol’s Factory, 231 East Forty‐Seventh Street (its first location, until 1967), April 21, 1964<br/>
Andy Warhol at the opening of his exhibition, “The Personality of the Artist,” at the Stable Gallery, 33 East 74th St., April 21, 1964<br/>
In one of the first protests in New York City against the Vietnam War, masked members of the Bread and Puppet Theater, led by artist, writer, and director Peter Schumann, march down Thompson St. from Washington Square, March 15, 1965<br/>
Drag queens compete in the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant at Town Hall, 123 West Forty-Third St., February 20, 1967<br/>
Artist Ed Ruscha with some of his “gunpowder ribbon drawings”, December 9, 1967<br/>
Artist Faith Ringgold poses with her work, August 30, 1978<br/>
New York Knicks forward Phil Jackson on the hardwood at Madison Square Garden, February 19, 1973<br/>
Merce Cunningham, March 22, 1973<br/>
Portrait of a parade-goer at the intersection of West Twenty-Third Street and Sixth Avenue during the Sixth Annual Gay Pride March (Gay Liberation Day), June 29, 1975<br/>
Artist Carolee Schneemann at a private first performance of Interior Scroll, at an art show titled Women Here and Now, honoring the United Nations’ International Women’s Year, in East Hampton, August 29, 1975<br/>