Exploring the World, in New York

Exploring the World, in New York

Marilynn K. Yee left Los Angeles to cover New York City during the chaos of the 1970s. Today, she retires as a staff photographer for The New York Times.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/exploring-the-world-in-new-york/

Marilynn K. Yee left sunny California for this? She had come to New York, all of 27 years old, to be a staff photographer at The New York Times. Among the first women on the photography staff, as well as the first Asian, she had left behind California, where she had been raised, and where she had worked briefly at The Los Angeles Times.