Once in a career, timing, skill and luck converge to produce a classic image. Photographer Barton Silverman recalls “a very good day” in 1966 covering Joe Namath and the Jets.
Thirty years ago, a Bronx native returned home and photographed the ruins of his borough. As he revisits his pictures, he sees much more than the notorious rubble.
The sculptor John Ahearn, known for his life-size plaster casts, and collaborator, Rigoberto Torres, worked in the Bronx in the 1980s, when many of its neighborhoods were benighted.