SHUSTAK, LAWRENCE (1926–2003)
An archive of 145 photographs documenting New York City, including downtown bohemian life, a young couple in a sparse apartment, youths in a fun house mirrored room, interiors, portraits, graffiti, street scenes, and a couple that may be self-portraits (including one man with a camera); also with a series of fish-eye nude and floral studies exploring abstracted poses and detailed shots; the group also includes contact sheets. Silver prints, many approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and some smaller, and the reverse, more than 30 with Shustak's Larence Shustak 45 Cottage Place Staten Island hand stamp, and many with the exposure notations, in pencil, on verso. 1970s