80s street photography

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Sucking in the Seventies, Willy Spiller

Photos by Bruce Davidson & John Conn

Bob Mazzer, now 65, and originally from Whitechapel, east London, chronicled life while he commuted to town, where he worked as a film projectionist.

THESE stunning photographs reveal the harsh reality of life in 1980s New York – a financially-ruined city riddled with gun crime and prostitution. Legendary photographer Bruce Gilden took doz…

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Robert Herman Synchronicity, New York, NY, 1983

“I just loved being out on the streets. Everything happened on the street," says street photographer Richard Sandler

I have a serious crush on the New York of yesteryear. It might be more of an obsession. I’m in love with the underground disco that Nicky Siano and Larry Levan spun at Studio 54 […]

Welcome to In Focus, a feature where writer Hannah Frishberg profiles some of the great street photographers of New York City's past and present. Native Brooklynite and chronicler of street...

What Brooklyn Really Looked Like in the 70s and 80s - VICE

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"There was more to this place than drugs and death," said photographer Joseph Rodriguez of his book, 'Spanish Harlem: El Barrio in the 80's.'