André Kertész, Lost Cloud, New York, 1937

“What I felt when making this picture was a feeling of solitude—the cloud didn’t know which way to go.”

André Kertész, Homing Ship, New York, 1944

Vivian Maier, Streets of New York, 1950s

Horst Schaefer, New York in the Sixties

Martin Munkácsi, New Yorks World Fair, Harpers Bazaar, 1938

Mark Twain in Nikola Tesla’s apartment, New York, 1894

“The high-voltage current is being passed through the human body to bring the lamp to incandescence. Tesla’s friend, Mark Twain, is holding the loop above the resonating coil. Tesla is in the background.”

Unknown photographer, New York, Fifth Avenue, ca. 1967

Adolf Fassbender, White Night, 1936

Sem Presser, New York, 1961