Since breaking ground to build the city’s first subway system, transit officials have hired photographers to survey and document areas before, during, and after construction. These photographs represent a rich historical record of New York through time, capturing rare and forgotten moments, and the architecture and culture of a city in flux.
Join Transit Museum Curator Jodi Shapiro, and current and former MTA staff photographers Marc Hermann and Patrick Cashin for a discussion on transit photography through the decades. They’ll detail present-day efforts to document a dynamic urban system and look back to the Pullis brothers, whose photographs of New York transit are featured in the Museum’s current exhibit, Streetscapes & Subways: Photographs by Pierre P. and Granville W. Pullis.
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