Palm Beach Daily News, recently wrote an article on Bill Cunningham, who is a fashion photographer whose On the Street columns appear regularly in The New York Times. Bill Cunningham shot 100's of photos around NYC from 1968 to 1976 featuring friend Editta Sherman, and occasionally other models, in period clothing posing in front of architecture spanning three centuries of the New York City’s past.
He featured his friend in period clothing from the 1860's strolling under the Gothic bridge in Central Park. The bridge was designed in 1860. The photo is in black and white and looks authentic to the time period, except for the modern day stroller in the background in modern dress.
While this show of over 80 photogrphs is currently on display in Palm Beach, it originated at the New York Historical Society, in a show called Decades. Editta Sherman and Bill Cunningam scoured thrift shops, street fairs and auctions for period clothes. They shot the pictures all over NYC on weekends. By the time they were finished, they’d collected more than 500 outfits and photographed more than 1,800 sites.
To learn more about this exhibit, and to see the picture of the one taken in Central Park and other NYC locations, click here.