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    toothpetardTom Scocca
    6/27/16 4:46pm

    Bill Cunningham was a photographer who people wanted to be photographed by.

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      benjaminallovertoothpetard
      6/27/16 4:48pm

      I think of him more as an anthropologist than a fashionista.

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      yousayclamato, joetoothpetard
      6/27/16 5:32pm

      Counterpoint: creepy old geezer with a foot fetish.

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    Dr.Strangelove'sChildTom Scocca
    6/27/16 6:21pm

    I watched the documentary with my wife. I found it fascinating. I’m from Missouri, so I knew nothing about New York or the fashion industry.

    By far, the most telling line in the whole movie came when he was in Paris for fashion week. A security guard tried to bar this slovenly-dressed man from the show, and his boss came up and let Cummingham in. He then berated the guard by saying “You always let him in, he’s the most important person here today.”

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      IncredibleCoincidenceDr.Strangelove'sChild
      6/27/16 7:10pm

      Not quite...Bill was let in to the event with, “Excuse me, but this is the most important man in the world." Wonderful.

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      Dr.Strangelove'sChildIncredibleCoincidence
      6/27/16 10:29pm

      Sorry, it was six years ago.

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    Dave Tom Scocca
    6/27/16 4:48pm

    Bill was more a biographer of NYC and it’s people than anything else. His vision, his joy, his love of the people of this stinky, crowded, vain, expensive City reminded me every time I say his work why I wanted to live here. I always kept one eye open for him about town, caught him pedaling by a couple of times. Never wanted to be a subject, just see he was there.

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      DCguyDave
      6/27/16 7:21pm

      He left behind an enormous archive of photographs/negatives which chronicles NY over the decades. Hopefully, it will wind up in a museum with the resources and interest enough to make it visible to the public.

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    SpringfeelTom Scocca
    6/27/16 4:44pm
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      Jordan CatalanoTom Scocca
      6/27/16 4:51pm

      His grandson gave him that bike for his 60th birthday, 27 years ago.

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        lostarchitectJordan Catalano
        6/27/16 6:40pm

        That is a modern Biria, made in the past few years. So you are not correct about that. Bill has had many bikes over the years, and he has replaced them as they were stolen or damaged or as he got bored of them.

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        sararueful2Jordan Catalano
        6/27/16 10:28pm

        He had no grandchildren (hard to do when you don’t have children), and his bikes were stolen every couple of years. He’d buy cheap used ones until the next time. Not sure where you got that information.

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      mm318Tom Scocca
      6/27/16 4:52pm

      Spotted this morning on the corner of 57th & 5th near his usual perch for On the Street.

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        tornadoslackssTom Scocca
        6/27/16 5:37pm

        I watched Bill Cunningham New York and Finding Vivian Maier back to back recently. It was a perfect way to spend an afternoon.

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          IAmNotADamnWriterTom Scocca
          6/27/16 11:10pm

          I always thought of Bill Cunningham as the Weegee of Fashionistas, sensational but not sensationalistic, focused on street fashion and not, of course, on bloody criminals in their final repose. We shall not see his like again. RIP.

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            In a Mini; let them mock me as My Mini Countryman is higher than youTom Scocca
            6/27/16 6:47pm

            [The Eyes of Dr. TJ Eckelburg Intensify]

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              DolemiteTom Scocca
              6/27/16 4:54pm

              “renunciations of food”. A monster!

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