Uitzicht vanuit 224 Avenue B, New York
New York was much seedier in the 1980s than it is now: drug-related problems, garbage, homeless people, and run-down buildings were more rampant and visible. This was the New York that Ken Schles recorded in his series Invisible City. Schles’ neighbourhood, ‘Alphabet City,’ was particularly notorious. With his ‘grimy’ photographs he found the perfect style for expressing how the city felt. This is the view from the apartment building where he lived.