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Bill Cunningham
Fashion photographer for The New York Times





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For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. 

Bill photographs people and the passing scene in the streets of Manhattan every day. Most of his pictures, he has said, are never published.

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Richard Avedon
American fashion and portrait photographer

Bill Cunningham Photos

BILL CUNNINGHAM'S NEW ART SHOW

by Maggie Dolan / photographs by Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham, Editta Sherman on the Train to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, ca. 1972. Gelatin silver photograph. New-York Historical Society, Gift of Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham, Club 21 (founded ca. 1920s; costume ca. 1940), ca. 1968- 1976. Gelatin silver photograph. 
New-York Historical Society, Gift of Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham, Associated Press Building at Rockefeller Center (built ca. 1939), ca. 1968-1976. Gelatin silver photograph. New-York Historical Society, Gift of Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham, Bowery Savings Bank (built ca. 1920), ca. 1968-1976. Gelatin silver photograph. 
New-York Historical Society, Gift of Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham, Grand Central Terminal (built ca. 1903-1913), ca. 1968-1976. Gelatin silver photograph. 
New-York Historical Society, Gift of Bill Cunningham

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