My Father’s New York
In 1947 and 1948, my father Luke Bennett, newly arrived to this country, explored and photographed New York City with a medium format and a 35mm camera, capturing the city’s scenes and landmarks. He photographed the Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, Harlem, Central Park, Lower Manhattan skyline, and street scenes as they existed almost eighty years ago.
I literally found his trove of negatives in a shoebox about twenty years ago and almost immediately went about scanning and printing many of his images. I hope you find them as fascinating as I have found them.
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