From the Magazine:
Editor's Letter
In the 1940s and 1950s photographic technology advanced to a point where photographers could move freely with handheld cameras and capture information with a never before seen clarity. In the wake of pioneering work from Henri Cartier Bresson and Robert Frank, a generation of photographers took to the streets of New York, producing some of the most iconic images of the past 100 years.
Hindsight is not always 20/20, it is a funhouse mirror with a tendency to exaggerate and to minimize. The harder we look at any point in our past, the more our focus is narrowed and opinion is cemented. A mythology is created that becomes our history.
For this issue, we've spoken to photographers that were working during a decisive moment in time, which could not have been more vital to photography's cultural history. Hotshoe's aim has always been to present a multitude of voices, not the opinions of its editors, so we've gone straight to the source to ask a few of those involved the same questions, allowing the bones to fall as they may, and to tell their own story as they lived it.
We are proud to present Hotshoe 204: NYC Street with portfolios from Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus, Larry Fink, Helen Levitt, Tod Papageorge, Sunil Gupta, Joel Meyerowitz, Lee Friedlander, Tony Ray-Jones, Mario Carnicelli, Shawn Walker, and Christopher Anderson.
-Melissa DeWitt