SUBWAY NEW YORK, 1977-1984 © by Willy Spiller 2016
Warm and faded colors of yesterday, oversaturated with blues and yellows, create a nostalgic haze enveloping with a warm embrace, reminding us of a time that has come and gone in just about every single way.
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Willy Spiller’s photographs of the New York City subway system circa 1979 capture the feeling of the city at a crucial time. Two years after the brink of bankruptcy, the city struggled to come back from abject neglect and abuse under the federal government’s policy of benign neglect. As white flight took hold and the city was abandoned en masse, what remained with the True Yorkers who would not—or could not—leave the city that never sleeps.
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SUBWAY NEW YORK, 1977-1984 © by Willy Spiller 2016, courtesy of Sturm & Drang.
SUBWAY NEW YORK, 1977-1984 © by Willy Spiller 2016, courtesy of Sturm & Drang.