Richard Sandler

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Richard Sandler (born 1946) [1] is an American street photographer and documentary filmmaker who has made work in New York City. [2] His photographs have been published in The Eyes of the City (2016) and are held in the collections of Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. [3] [4] [5] His films include The Gods of Times Square (1999), Brave New York (2004), and Radioactive City (2011). He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking. [6]

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Sandler has a retrospective exhibition on at the Bronx Documentary Center in New York City from February 11 to March 26, 2023. [7]

Life and work

Sandler grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. [8] In 1968, he moved to Boston to work as a macrobiotic chef, and later as an acupuncturist. At some point he boarded with motivational psychologist David McClelland and his wife Mary. "Mary gave Sandler her Leica 3F in 1977 and taught him how to develop film in their basement darkroom." [9] That year he began making photographs on the streets of Boston, which led to him working as a photojournalist. [1] Three years later [2] he moved back to New York City where he continued to make street photographs until September 11, 2001. Sandler had begun making films in New York in the early 1990s and after 9/11 he switched from photography to filmmaking, producing a series of free-form documentaries. [9]

His book, The Eyes of the City (2016), contains photographs made between 1977 and the weeks before 9/11 in New York and Boston, with most from between 1977 and 1992 in New York, and several from Boston. [9] [10]

Publications

Films

Sandler directed and produced the following documentaries:

Exhibitions

Awards

Collections

Sandler's work is held in the following permanent collections:

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  3. ↑ "These photos show a New York that doesn't really exist anymore". Washington Post. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  4. 1 2 "Works - Richard Sandler - People - The MFAH Collections". mfah.org. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  5. 1 2 "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  6. 1 2 "Richard Sandler". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  7. 1 2 "Juxtapoz Magazine - Richard Sandler "The Eyes of the City" @ Bronx Documentary Center". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
  8. ↑ Gonzalez, David (26 October 2017). "Beauty, Politics and Humor in a Rapidly Changing City". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  9. 1 2 3 "Meet the Unsung Street Photographer of 1980s New York". Time. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
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  11. ↑ Weinstock, Tish. "richard sandler has been photographing new york street life for decades". i-D. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  12. ↑ Stone, Mee-Lai (27 February 2023). "Between the streets: shades of New York – in pictures". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-02-27.
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