Have you ever wanted to hop into a time machine, set the clock back 40 years and live a day in 1970s New York? Well now you can, kind of, with the release of Street, a new photobook by street photographer Carrie Boretz.
Spanning the mid 1970s right through to the 1990s, Carrie’s beautiful black and white photographs of New York street life offer a personal and intimate view of city she grew up in. Instead of capturing the social and political strife that dominated the city during that period, Carrie’s work focuses on the subtle and often familiar comings and goings of everyday life in the neighbourhoods around where she lived, before the city was reborn and regenerated into the New York we know today.
Although the book gives us an insight into a specific moment in history, there is a certain timelessness to it in that it captures the intrinsic New York colloquialism that is still very much alive today; from scenes of children playing in the streets to commuters making their way through the city.
Raw, intimate and beautifully real, get lost in Carrie Boretz’s visual love letter to New York.
Street by Carrie Boretz, is published by powerHouse Books