Topic: Harlem

Puerto Rican Wedding, East Harlem, 1970
Photo Essay

Everyday Life in the Hood: New York 1970-1973

Photographer Camilo José Vergara writes for LightBox about his experience photographing the urban blight of 1970s New York.

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Dawoud Bey
Out There

Harlem Revisited: A New Look at Dawoud Bey’s New York Portraits

Present-day Chicago is not Harlem in 1979. Present-day Harlem isn’t even Harlem in 1979. But at the Art Institute of Chicago’s new exhibition Dawoud Bey: Harlem USA, some things have stayed the same.

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