A Bygone Era of Big City Life
With a humanist and humorous gaze, Fred Stein took photos that provide a record of the everyday pageantry of 1940s New York and Paris between the world wars.
“Mehr Licht” — more light — were Goethe’s famous last words. That deathbed declaration was also the title of Fred Stein’s only book, featuring images taken along Fifth Avenue, which was published posthumously. What could be more fitting?