I got serious about photography when I was 11 or 12 in Junior High School, initially photographing with a secondhand Voigtländer Vito C I bought for about $30. By the time I was 13 I had managed to buy my first SLR and photographed my way through the 1970s.
This collection of ancient scanned negatives, many of dubious quality, roughly covers the following street photography subjects: people around Manhattan, including Central Park in the late ’60s to early ’70s, around the Bethesda Fountain where photographers used to hang out; on buses and subway trains; in the Bronx where my first apartment was; the big anti-Vietnam war protest in Washington DC in 1971; and musicians and bands of my friends, playing around NY. There are also shots of the Brooklyn Bridge from my first day shooting with an SLR in 1970 (note the World Trade Towers in the background), a major snowstorm that hit the city in 1979, and public figures from editorial work I did for the UN Plaza Hotel, giving me the opportunity to shoot such well known figures as Muhammad Ali, Mayor Ed Koch, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, and Cambodian King Sihanouk. And I have also included pictures from my travels around the US (1980?), and Rome, Israel and Athens in 1971-72.
(Click any image to see them all enlarged):
