New York City has a population of over eight
million people. Photographer Brandon Stanton has been photographing many of
these people since 2010 and now in his book, Humans of New York, he has
compiled four hundred of his pictures. Since his aim is to create a
photographic census, he has included a wide swath of New Yorkers: wealthy, poor
and middle class; young and old; native born and immigrant; the beautiful and
not so beautiful; the eccentrically dressed and the elegantly dressed;
introverts and extroverts; people doing well and people who are down and out;
musicians, dancers, athletes, intellectuals, models and ordinary working
people. There are pictures of feet, hands, mustaches, hair and tattoos and lots
of dogs. As a reader, you can choose to flip through the book randomly or
examine each photograph carefully. Just be sure to find the “Sultan of
Wisconsin.”
