From yellow taxis splashing their way through Times Square to ladies in couture millinery feigning gossip for a fashion photoshoot, these colour photos were a rarity for their time. It was not until the 1950s that color film offered an accessible artistic medium, confined for years to fashion, advertising and low quality family snapshots.
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Models hover over New York City in hat fashions of 1949 in this photo shot by Norman Parkinson. |
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A woman steps out of a Yellow Taxi looking ever so chic, 1962. |
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A woman waits for her train in the New York City subway, 1966. |
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A man wearing goggles tilts his head toward the camera on 14th Street, circa 1947-48. |
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Bob Dylan and his muse, artist Suze Rotolo, walk down West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, 1961. |
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A man in a New York City bar. |
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Kids with laundry play on a city street in 1972. |
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A 1956 photo captures a man walking mysteriously through the night. |
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A policeman patrols 59th Street in 1964. |
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City dwellers dress in their Sunday best as they spill into Rockefeller Center in 1964. |
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A band stands on top of a liquor cabinet at Half Note Bar in 1959. |
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A pedestrian crosses 42nd Street in the rain in 1964. |
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Men slumped over outside of a photobooth in Coney Island in this 1953 photo taken by Marvin Newman. |
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A go-go dancer takes the stage at a nightclub in 1968. |
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A woman whirls up clouds of cotton candy at the San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy in 1952. |