Bill Cunningham New York
Directed by Richard Press
2010Documentary84 minUnited States
'We all get dressed for Bill': a portrait of 80-year-old Bill Cunningham, the New York Times street photographer who turned fashion into cultural anthropology.
Synopsis
“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Anna Wintour about Bill Cunningham, the 80-year-old New York Times photographer and unlikely man-about-town. Cunningham has two weekly columns in the Style section of The New York Times: “On The Street,” in which he identifies fashion trends as he spots them emerging on the street; and “Evening Hours,” his ongoing coverage of the social whirl of charities that benefit the cultural life of the city. The result is far from simple picture taking — it is cultural anthropology.
The director
Richard Press
Richard Press is an American filmmaker. Bill Cunningham New York, his portrait of the legendary street-fashion photographer, opened the New Directors/New Films festival and became an art-house hit.
