In New York School: Photographs, 1936 – 1963, Jane Livingston identified as the core of the New York City tradition a street photography that was at once straight and objective, and yet at the same time melancholy and tinged overall with a sense of "noir."   The  classic photographers – Louis Faurer, Lisette Model, Helen Levitt and Louis Stettner – all captured in their work a moodiness that enveloped  Manhattan then and still does today, even more so since 9/11.  Diane Arbus created photographs that were the embodiment of her isolation – glimpses of a barely controlled instability.  And Robert Frank’s 1950's The Americans, with its Kerouac introduction, proved the beat vision to be the legitimate successor to the noir films of the decade before.

The photographs on the parade pages were shot on high speed film (Kodak T3200 and Fuji Neopan 1600) on an F100 with a 70 - 300 zoom.   I've since replaced that lens with two new Nikon lenses, the 80 - 400 VR and the 135 DFC.

Although the photographs are reproduced here as blue/gray duotones to make web viewing easier, the actual prints are warm tone black & white.