Bill Cunningham is the eighty-one year old mastermind behind "On the Street" and "Evening Hours", the original street style photographer for the New York Times. Last spring, filmmaker Richard Press, released Bill Cunningham New York, a documentary of the man behind the lens. After nearly a decade of pursuing the legendary photographer, Cunningham obliged. Following him home from fashions most exclusive parties, on his Schwinn of course, to his tiny apartment above Carnegie Hall. Film crews trailed him from New York Fashion Week in 2008, to Paris where he was awarded the title chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
A must see for anyone who has ever spotted Bill in his electric blue french sanitation jacket, standing on the corner of 57th Street and 5th Avenue, or had a glimpse of him spinning by on one of his twenty-eight bicycles.
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love Bill!
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