DATE: August 9, 2009

"Sexy and the City" Photographs of New York at Yossi Milo


Andrew Bush's terrific photographs of drivers in their cars still occupy the gallery's main space, but in the back there's a new show that looks at New York as a city in heat.


ImageJoel Meyerowitz, Greenwich Village, NYC, "Chocolates," 1974, © Joel Meyerowitz, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Most of the pictures are clustered together on one wall, salon style, so romantic images (kissing couples as seen by Weegee, Arthur Leipzig, and Charles Harbutt) get an extra charge from their more explicitly erotic neighbors. André Kertész's rooftop sunbather, Merry Alpern's furtive hooker, and the naked men whom Alvin Baltrop found on the Christopher Street pier were unaware of the camera.

Read the complete review in The New Yorker.





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