The Coney Island board walk in Brooklyn, NYC in the seventies. Street photography with my Leica and the wonderful Summicron 35mm F2. The film was Kodak Echtavhrome X.

Vintage street photography

Shot way back in the mid seventies with one of my Leicas and the great 35mm Summicron f:2 on Tri-X Pan. The event was the Saint Anthony's feast in Manhattan's SOHO district. 

Ready for gentrification

A street in Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn in the seventies when gentrification was in it's infancy. This is a Kodachrome scan.

NY in the seventies

A few images from my archives shot on East 28th Street, Manhattan, These all date from the early seventies and are all Kodachromes.

Vintage street photography

These images date from the early seventies, a period when I did a lot of street photography. Mostly shot with one of my Leicas and the 35mm F:2 Summicron lens. The film was usually Ektachrome 100 that I bought in 100 feet rolls and developed in Unicolor chemicals and mounted on Spiratone mounts with a Spiratone  little slide mount press. Naturally this was to save money. Today shooting is free but way back then it was rather costly.

Vintage street photography

Here are some samples from the street photography I enjoyed making in the seventies. Classic photos of New York in the seventies. They were all shot on Ektachrome with the Leica M-4 but two were converted to black and white for technical reasons because the original slides had developed  serious color shifts.

St. Anthony's Feast

Here are two archival shots dating to circa 1974 of the Feast of St. Anthony on Sullivan Street in Manhattan. They were shot on Kodak Tri-X with the Leica M-4 and the sublime Summicron F 2 35mm lens. I developed in Kodak D-76 in 1:1 dilution for 8 minutes at 20 degrees Celsius. Oh yes...I remember it well!

Music in the park / Central Park in the seventies [Part 1]

Street musicians would gather in the park. Some good, others great, while some were so so. But it didn't matter. Being there and making the scene was all that mattered. The park today is full of people using their smart phones while being totally disconnected with the reality around them.What can I say. Here are some of the great ones.

When one photo is enough for a post / The Elton Hotel

I believe that this is one of my better shots. Taken on East 27th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues. I had a studio on 26th Street off Lexington Avenue and was on my way there when I spotted this image. I love the light and the whole composition. I used a Nikon F with a 35mm Nikkor  F 2.8 lens on the usual Tri-X Pan film, my all time favorite emulsion for black and white work.