Dim the lights on Seventh Avenue – Bill Cunningham

Tributes like flowers are covering the internet with tributes to and memories of revered photographer Bill Cunningham. We can’t top these moving eulogies so we thought we would gather some of them here.

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From the fashion world: http://www.refinery29.com/2016/06/115127/bill-cunningham-fashion-photographer-memories

From Salon: ..a model for a creative life..

‘The Eyes of a City’ Gawker

Lynn Yaeger in Vogue tells a moving story with this quote: “Child, who cares if we’re not invited! Who cares about these uptown people! We are downtown people!’’

The diner where he ate breakfast every day, Stage Star Deli .

As Anna says: “We all dress for Bill.”

His muse from The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/bill-cunninghams-favorite-muse

A Gallery of Mr. Cunningham and some of his images: http://heavy.com/entertainment/2016/06/bill-cunningham-dies-new-york-times-fashion-photographer-death-anna-wintour-fashion-week/2/

Want more? Check out this 2011 documentary on Hulu, Amazon or iTunes: “Bill Cunningham New York.” 

A petition is going as of the posting of this blog to name a street after him – add your name here: https://www.change.org/p/bill-de-blasio-rename-the-corner-of-57th-street-fifth-avenue-bill-cunningham-corner

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