Bill Cunningham New York (2010) on Netflix
NR20101h 24mBiographyDocumentary
Bill Cunningham, eighty, has spent decades photographing New York street fashion and society for the New York Times. He rides a bicycle and faces eviction from his Carnegie Hall studio.
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Bill Cunningham, eighty, does not call himself a photographer, though he has written for the New York Times for more than three decades. His columns, On the Street and Evening Hours, record how people dress as they move through the city and who attends its charity gatherings. He began his working life as a milliner, and he hunts for trends before they are given names, preferring the unconventional to the famous. Those he photographs tend to welcome his candid pictures, because he wants to see what people create rather than their money or their stylists. He gets around by bicycle and keeps a cramped apartment at Carnegie Hall, where filing cabinets hold his negatives, alongside a few long-standing tenants who also face losing their homes.
