New york 1950s aesthetic

Retro New York on Instagram: “31st and 3rd Avenue, 1952. 📸: Ernst Haas”

Retro New York on Instagram: “Times Square, 1950s. 📸: unknown”

Manhattan: 42nd Street and 8th Avenue (1953)

Times Square is a major commercial intersection and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seven...

Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

America In The 1950s - Imgur

More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has...