As we watch the photographer work the streets, the sound track cues up the Velvet Underground’s “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” the song most identified with Warhol. I wonder what Cunningham felt when he heard that. Bill Cunningham New York opens on March 16 at Film Forum in New York. Amy Taubin is a contributing editor of Film Comment and Sight ...

Bill Cunningham was born outside of Boston to a Catholic family about six decades ago, photographed his first fashion show in 1947, worked as a stock boy in a Boston department store and later at Bonwit’s, served in the Army, and, when he got out, immediately began making “muffs, hats, masks, furniture and decorative items” of feathers.

2016年6月25日 · Bill Cunningham, the legendary New York Times fashion photographer, died on Saturday. The eighty-seven-year-old had been hospitalized recently for a stroke. Jacob Bernstein writes for the New York Times that…

2020年9月26日 · For decades, many turned straight to the style section of the New York Times’ Sunday edition to pore over the vast arrays of tiny images the ubiquitous photographer Bill Cunningham shot at galas, at couture shows, at art galleries, and alfresco, celebrating the twin pillars of high and low society: fashion and fame. He had a knack for ...

2016年7月6日 · Jacob Bernstein of the New York Times states that the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and East Fifty-Seventh Street, where the famed fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, who passed away on… Corner of Fifth Avenue and East Fifty-Seventh Street Renamed in Honor of Bill Cunningham

2012年12月5日 · Left: Artist Marianne Vitale. Right: New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. Left: Critic Jerry Saltz and dealer Monica Sprüth. Right: Artist David Humphrey. Left: Artist Peter Halley. Right: Linda Green with Jewish Museum curator Jens Hoffmann. Left: Artist Terry Winters with Grace Dunham. Right: Artist Wangechi Mutu.

UNTIL RECENTLY, being an American admirer of the photographer Bill Henson was a lonely and rather painstaking chore. Apart from a small survey of his work at the Denver Art Museum in 1990 and a few photographs included in a 1984 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition of Australian art, he has been almost impossible to find in the United States ...

One of the sources for Brandt’s photographs of the ’30s had been the work of Brassaï, whose Paris de nuit (1933) had served as the model for A Night in London; Brandt’s nudes also invite a comparison with the French photographer’s series on prostitutes and brothels. Brassaï’s pictures, coming from an earlier time, are only ...

I’ve argued before, and will assert again here, that photography, more even than other forms of image-making, is a form of love: the photographer’s love for the sitter, and the variations on attention it inspires. Because the photographer watches the way a lover watches, with a regard at once rapt, alert, fascinated, and ecstatic.

Bill realized that for years, he had unconsciously been wrestling with the memory of that traumatic day. Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, 1865, in a production directed by Peter Sellars, 2004. Performance view, Paris Opera, April 2005. Four-hour video: Bill Viola. Photo: Ruth Walz. Bottom: Bill’s work was not universally admired and ...