We are all familiar with the dark side of New York City in the 70s, 80s and 90s. It has been depicted in films like ‘Taxi Driver’ and recently, in David Simon’s HBO show ‘The Deuce’. Time Square was infamously known for being a seedy place filled with criminals,prostitutes and X-Rated theaters. But the photographs taken by Carrie Boretz, offers her audience a bigger bite to the Big Apple.
Her new book, Street: New York City – 70s, 80s, 90s focuses less on the drama associated with the time. Boretz was more interested in the subtle and familiar moments of everyday life in the neighborhoods where she lived, a time when the city was filled with graffiti and less sanitized. The body of work shows a city filled with contradictions where all walks of life shared a common space. Her photos of children playing, daily commuters, demonstrations and parades and other joys and pitfalls of humanity are timeless subjects.
See New York City of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s from a whole new perspective.
