Stirring Images From Longtime Village Voice Photographer Capture 1950s-1970s NYC

19 photos

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States, an estimated twenty thousand women march along Fifth Ave., here past a banner that reads, ‘‘Women of the World Unite!”, August 26, 1970

Eighth Street, looking east from Sixth Avenue, January 1, 1950 Vintage gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950

Reading copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" on the couch at Fred W. McDarrah's apartment, 304 West 14th Street, New York City, February 14, 1959

Timothy Leary sits on the stage at the Village Theater, 105 Second Ave., as he hosts his multimedia presentation Illumination of the Buddha, December 6, 1966

Bob Dylan, sitting on a bench in Christopher Park (across the street from the offices of the Village Voice since 1960), either salutes or shields his eyes from the sun, January 22, 1965

Allen Ginsberg, his longtime companion Peter Orlovsky, and Orlovsky’s brother Lafcadio relax in their apartment at 170 East Second Street, January 9, 1960

A crowd of demonstrators in Chicago’s Grant Park during the Democratic National Convention, sitting around a hill topped by a statue of Union General John Logan, August 27, 1968

Guests sit on a mattress and on the floor at a birthday party for Ted Joans, July 25, 1959 Vintage gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1959

Painter Philip Guston in his studio on East Eighth Street, April 14, 1961

Pop artists Tom Wesselmann, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, and Claes Oldenburg at Warhol’s Factory, 231 East Forty‐Seventh Street (its first location, until 1967), April 21, 1964

Andy Warhol at the opening of his exhibition, “The Personality of the Artist,” at the Stable Gallery, 33 East 74th St., April 21, 1964

In one of the first protests in New York City against the Vietnam War, masked members of the Bread and Puppet Theater, led by artist, writer, and director Peter Schumann, march down Thompson St. from Washington Square, March 15, 1965

Drag queens compete in the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant at Town Hall, 123 West Forty-Third St., February 20, 1967

Artist Ed Ruscha with some of his “gunpowder ribbon drawings”, December 9, 1967

Artist Faith Ringgold poses with her work, August 30, 1978

New York Knicks forward Phil Jackson on the hardwood at Madison Square Garden, February 19, 1973

Merce Cunningham, March 22, 1973

Portrait of a parade-goer at the intersection of West Twenty-Third Street and Sixth Avenue during the Sixth Annual Gay Pride March (Gay Liberation Day), June 29, 1975

Artist Carolee Schneemann at a private first performance of Interior Scroll, at an art show titled Women Here and Now, honoring the United Nations’ International Women’s Year, in East Hampton, August 29, 1975

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