Fred McDarrah

World Champion Mets

1969

Veteran Village Voice photographer Fred W. McDarrah Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests. Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Voice’s old office. Not just a social chronicler, McDarrah was a great photo-journalist. For years, McDarrah was the Voice's only photographer and, for decades, he ran the Voice’s photo department, where he helped train dozens of young photographers, including James Hamilton, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Holland and Marc Asnin. His mailbox was simply marked "McPhoto." An exhibit of McDarrah’s photos of artists presented by the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea was hailed by The New York Times as “a visual encyclopedia of the era’s cultural scene.” artists in their studios, (Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis, Robert Smithson...

This is a photo of Friedl Dzubas (Abstract Expressionist) at Castelli Gallery, signed in ink and with photographer stamp verso and hand written title.. Over a 50-year span, McDarra...

World Series Parade, New York City, 1954 by Leonard Freed, is an 11" x 14" gelatin silver later ("lifetime") print, signed on verso (back of print) by the photographer and stamped (magnum). The photograph was handprinted by Leonard Freed. Parade by Freed captures the joy of two majorettes en route in the streets of the city for the celebration of the New York Giants...

Untitled (1107-44, Nyc), Original Black and White Photograph of NYC, 2014 Artist Commentary: This is the first print in an edition of five. Approxi...