RICHARD SANDLER
The award-winning photographer/filmmaker, Richard Sandler, shot the streets of New York City from 1977 until the early 2000s, reflecting on the joys and stresses of urbanity.
BIO
Raw, brutal, and uncompromising images. the Eyes of the City is a tribute to the unrecognized ghosts of New York's past.
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The Hopefuls, Studio 54, 1981
"Because of the density of the spaces depicted in Richard’s frames, tension is rife: for example, children and families are forced into uncomfortable proximity with the pornographic advertisements that were a pillar of pre-Giuliani Times Square in the 1980s. Bystanders become inadvertently complicit in a narrative they are unaware exists. No one is spared exposure in Richard’s street" - Serge J-F. Levy
PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
2023
The Strange Intimacy of New York City, The Atlantic
Between the streets: shades of New York – in pictures, The Guardian
2017
Beauty, Politics and Humor
in a Rapidly Changing City, The New York Times
Richard Sandler’s Startling Photographs of Pre-9/11 New York, Hyperallergic
2016
These Photos Show a New York That Doesn’t Really Exist Anymore, The Washington Post