New York City's Most Classic Street Photographer

Louis Mendes has been photographing people on the streets of New York City for more than fifty years. You may have seen him around: looking dapper in a suit and fedora, his jumbo Speed Graphic camera--the old-fashioned kind the press used to use, with extending bellows and a flashbulb--strapped to his chest. One recent sunny morning, on the corner of Forty-second Street and Sixth Avenue, he was wearing an "I Heart New York" tie, his pockets stuffed with Fuji instant film and small individual fla...