Bill Cunningham New York. 2010. USA. Directed by Richard Press. 35mm. 84 min.
Living in a tiny corner studio apartment in the fabled Carnegie Hall Studio apartments, New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham sleeps on a makeshift bed among his beloved file cabinets. Within are thousands of negatives of Cunningham’s shots capturing fashion-forward individuals on the streets of New York, Paris, and Milan. Usually on his Schwinn bike, traversing Manhattan from tip to tip, Cunningham looks for the street fashionistas who bring the pages of glossy magazines to life. Sadly, we learn little about Cunningham, who seems to prefer his anonymity.