{"id":24740,"date":"2009-03-25T22:50:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T02:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=24740"},"modified":"2014-03-31T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T02:50:45","slug":"bill-cunningham-facades-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=24740","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cunningham: Facades Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=24741\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24741\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24741\" alt=\"bill cunningham facades1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bill-cunningham-facades1-560x702.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bill-cunningham-facades1-560x702.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bill-cunningham-facades1.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1968, photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyhistory.org\/exhibitions\/bill-cunningham-facades\">Bill Cunningham<\/a> embarked on an eight-year project to document the architectural riches and fashion history of New York City. Scouring the city\u2019s thrift stores, auction houses, and street fairs for vintage clothing, and scouting sites on his bicycle, Cunningham generated a photographic essay entitled\u00a0<em>Facades<\/em>, which paired models\u2014in particular his muse, fellow photographer Editta Sherman\u2014in period costumes with historic settings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although by turns whimsical and bold, Cunningham\u2019s project also was part of the larger cultural zeitgeist in New York City, during an era in which issues surrounding both the preservation and the problems of the urban landscape loomed large. The photographer donated 88 silver gelatin prints from the series to the New-York Historical Society in 1976, and now, almost four decades later, Cunningham\u2019s work will be reconsidered in a show that will highlight the historical perspective the photographs suggest\u2014not just of the distant past, but of the particular time in which they were created.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyhistory.org\/exhibitions\/bill-cunningham-facades\"><em>New-York Historical Society<\/em><\/a>, 170 Central Park West at Richard Gilder Way, NYC, 212-873-3400, through June 15, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn 1968, photographer Bill Cunningham embarked on an eight-year project to document the architectural riches and fashion history of New York City. Scouring the city\u2019s thrift stores, auction houses, and street fairs for vintage clothing, and scouting sites on his bicycle, Cunningham generated a photographic essay entitled\u00a0Facades, which paired models\u2014in particular his muse, fellow photographer [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[596,3805,717,3806,3807],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24743,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24740\/revisions\/24743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}