He's the people's paparazzo: a photographer who gathers the stories and portraits of New Yorkers on the streets and subways, in playgrounds and shady alleyways, parading, dancing, or wading in wedding dresses at Brighton Beach. Brandon Stanton, who founded the irresistible blog Humans of New York in the summer of 2010 as a "photographic census of the city," has since become an Internet celebrity, with more than 1.5 million followers on Facebook. This week, the 29–year–old Brooklynite released Humans of New York, a 304–page book derived from three years of work on his blog. Selections of his best urban portraiture are accompanied by profiles and interviews. New York personality abounds. Stanton, who grew up in Atlanta and worked for three years as a bond trader in Chicago, treats New Yorkers as an exotic species, with plumage and markings unlike those of any other group of Homo sapiens. In his cast of more than 10,000 characters, there's the green–haired granny with frog mittens and butterfly barrettes, the 5–year–old in a pilot costume, the mustachioed neuroscientist by day/burlesque performer by night, and the creepily convincing Michael Jackson impersonator.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
[ Fast Company | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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He's the people's paparazzo: a photographer who gathers the stories and portraits of New Yorkers on the streets and subways, in playgrounds and shady alleyways, parading, dancing, or wading in wedding dresses at Brighton Beach. Brandon Stanton, who founded the irresistible blog Humans of New... Continue reading at Fast Company
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