Street Photos of 1960s New York in Kodachrome by Tod Papageorge – The New York Times

Street Photos of 1960s New York in Kodachrome by Tod Papageorge

Hungry for commercial work, the young photographer captured the city’s storefronts and residents with Kodachrome film from 1966 to 1967.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/lens/tod-papageorge-dr-blankmans-new-york-kodachrome.html

Tod Papageorge was relatively new to Manhattan and photography when he set out in the mid-1960s to make his mark. While street photographers with black-and-white film darted around pedestrians and traffic, he was attracted to storefronts with their harmonized symmetry and varying shades of gold between jelly jars and cider jugs. Traditionally, black and white was the choice of street photography, and color was for commercial work. His contemporaries, Joel Meyerowitz and Garry Winogrand, urged him to use color.