A street artist's work seems to yearn for a less complicated time in this image from the photographer's new collection Cities are made of sedimented strata of memory. Janet Delaney's photograph of the New York street painter was taken in the mid-1980s, with a Rolleiflex camera from the 1960s. The artist's painting, meanwhile, seems nostalgic for a SoHo scene of an earlier vintage - his depicted street ignores the presence of the lorry and street furniture and scaffolding of his present moment in...
A street artist's work seems to yearn for a less complicated time in this image from the photographer's new collection Cities are made of sedimented strata of memory. Janet Delaney's photograph of the New York street painter was taken in the mid-1980s, with a Rolleiflex camera from the 1960s. The artist's painting, meanwhile, seems nostalgic for a SoHo scene of an earlier vintage - his depicted street ignores the presence of the lorry and street furniture and scaffolding of his present moment in...
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