Just the
other day I discovered Bill Cunningham on the New York Times website (thanks
honey;-)). Here he has a video column called “On the Street”. For
the last 50 years he has been documenting the fashion as seen on the streets of
New York. It is fascinating and a very real view on fashion! One might call him the founder of Street Style!
Click here to see it.
On March 16th,
2011 a documentary was released about him – I would love to see it!
Have you had the pleasure?
Have you had the pleasure?
This is what
Wikipedia writes about his life and career:
Cunningham
dropped out of Harvard University in 1948 and moved to New
York, where he initially worked in advertising. Not long after, he quit his job
and struck out on his own, making hats under the name "William J."
After being drafted and serving a tour in the U.S. Army, he returned to New
York and got a job writing for the Chicago
Tribune.
During his years as a writer, he contributed significantly to fashion
journalism, introducing American audiences to Azzedine
Alaïa and Jean-Paul Gaultier. While working at the Tribune
and at Women's Wear Daily, he began taking photographs
of fashion on the streets of New York. As the result of a chance photograph of Greta Garbo,
he published a group of his impromptu pictures in the Times in December 1978,
which soon became a regular series. His editor, Arthur Gelb,
has called these photographs "a turning point for the Times, because it
was the first time the paper had run pictures of well-known people without
getting their permission."
Cunningham photographs people and the passing scene in the streets of
Manhattan every day. Most of his pictures, he has said, are never published.
Designer Oscar de la Renta has said, "More than
anyone else in the city, he has the whole visual history of the last 40 or 50
years of New York. It's the total scope of fashion in the life of New York."
Though he has made a career out of unexpected photographs of celebrities,
socialites, and fashion personalities, many in those categories value his
company. According to David Rockefeller, Brooke Astor
asked he be invited to her 100th birthday party, the only member of the media
so honored.
In 2008 he was awarded the title Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres
by the French Ministry of Culture.
In 2010, filmmaker Richard Press and Philip Gefter of The Times produced
Bill Cunningham New York, a documentary
about Cunningham, his bicycle, and his camera. The film was released on March
16, 2011.
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