In today’s age of online exhibitionism, the self-effacing, photographic obsessiveness of Bill Cunningham might seem quaint. What photographer Bill Cunningham can teach us about money and freedom. Bill Cunningham, considered by many to be a pioneer of street photography, died on Saturday, but not without leaving an impact on photography today.

Cunningham, whose life and work were featured in the 2010 documentary Bill Cunningham New York, documented fashion on the streets of New York City with his camera, blue jacket, and bicycle. Photo courtesy of the New-York Historical Society Library, Melanie Tinnelly Collection of Photographs of or by Bill Cunningham … Most photographers, (who tend to be very private and technical), would be happy to just be “considered” for one. He tends to have two cameras hanging around his neck.

Bill Cunningham Special – Nikon FM2 with 35mm f/2 Nikkor lens Two Documentaries. I’d definitely pair with the amazing Nikon 35mm f/1.8 , which is very sharp, fast-focusing, and like the D3100, an absolute bargain — around $200 . The movie maker had exceptional insight of the photographer‘s character after sitting down with him for a brief recording back in 1994. Bill Cunningham, who turned fashion photography into his own branch of cultural anthropology on the streets of New York, chronicling an era’s ever … Mark Bozek’s “The Times of Bill Cunningham” was selected for the 2018 New York Film Festival. The current equivalent model is the D3100 , which is an absolute bargain at under $600.

Bill is best known for his regular NYT features, … Bill Cunningham in the Sheep Meadow in Central Park on Easter 1967, with his first camera, a half-frame that cost $35. William John "Bill" Cunningham Jr. (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) was an American fashion photographer for the New York Times, known for his candid and street photography.. A Harvard University dropout, he first became known as a designer of women's hats before moving on to writing about fashion for Women's Wear Daily and the Chicago Tribune.He began taking candid photographs … Bill Cunningham, considered by many to be a pioneer of street photography, died on Saturday, but not without leaving an impact on photography today. Another sad loss today as we remember The New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham. From Bill Cunningham New York on Netflix. From 1978 until his death, in 2016, at 87, Cunningham … So the miracle of “Bill Cunningham New York,” a new 88-minute documentary about the photographer of “On the Street” and “Evening Hours,” is that its subject agreed to participate in the first place.The film, which is to open the New Directors/New Films series on Wednesday at the Museum of Modern Art, took 10 years to make. His old-school Nikon FM2 and a digital Nikon D40x (or at least he used to a couple of years ago). UPDATE – Bill Cunningham has gone digital, and is now using a low-end Nikon DSLR, possibly a D40X. Pro-consumer video camera in hand on the eve of untold disaster, the budding documentarian planted himself at a “respectful distance” from Cunningham, who was lingering outside a Bill … Bill Cunningham recalls the greatest fashion show he's ever seen: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis - … Bill Cunningham on Bill Cunningham … His lens of choice is a 35mm prime. Bill Cunningham with camera, October 1974. Not one,…but two documentaries on his life!