Richard Sandler
Richard Sandler is a street photographer and documentary filmmaker. He has directed and shot eight non-fiction films, including “The Gods of Times Square,” “Brave New York” and “Radioactive City.”
Sandler’s still photographs are in the permanent collections of Brooklyn Museum, Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Museum of the City of New York, New York Historical Society, New York Public Library.
He was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship for photography, a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship for Filmmaking, and a New York State Council on the Arts fellowship for Filmmaking.
The Eyes of the City was published by powerHouse Books in 2016. Read the reviews!
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Grand Central Terminal, N.Y.C., 1990

Veiled Woman, N.Y.C., 1984

World Trade Center, NYC, 1990

Hasid and Hipster, N.Y.C., 2001

Subway Noir, NYC, 1986

Boy and Cross, Boston, 1977

U.S., Soldier Shot Dead, NYC, c. 1983

Van Cleef, N.Y.C., 1984

Mad Ave, N.Y.C., 1982

6th & 57th Street, NYC, 1981

Security, 57th St., NYC, 1981

Three Do's, Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C., c. 1982

Fuck Work, Mass. Ave., Boston, 1978

Briefcases, 57th St., NYC, 1985

Subway Swoon, N.Y.C., c. 1986

Hand on Subway Car Window, NYC, 1984

Subway Kiss, NYC, 1987

Macy’s Window, NYC, 1989

Mortality, 57th Street, N.Y.C., 1986

Anorexic Woman, Queens, NYC, 1985

Hands Touch, Tremont St., Boston, 1978

Pissed Woman, 5th Ave, N.Y.C., 1983

Furs, 5th Ave, 1984

Black Nannies, White Tykes, SoHo, NYC, 1982

Two Faces, 5th Ave., NYC, 1989

5th Ave & 55th St.,NYC, 1998

RR Train, N.Y.C., 1982

CC Train, NYC, 1985

SkyBo, 7’8” 5th Ave., NYC, 1987

Chisolm Democratic Convention, 1980

Anti Nuke March, 1982

Hair, NYC, 1990

Waiting Line, Studio 54, NYC, 1981

Fridays, Boston, 1978

TWA Terminal JKF, NYC, 1979

Grand Central Terminal, 1982

Glam Rock Concert, NYC, 2001

Democratic Convention, San Francisco, 1984

Prudential Center, Boston, 1978

4 Chicks, NYC, 1982

Ass, Central Park, NYC, 1985

Kids Dazed on Subway, NYC, 1982

Family of Three on Subway, c. 2004

Hats, and the Cant of Conquest, NYC, c. 1987

Ivana Trump Doppelgänger, NYC, c.1983

Hormones, 59th st., NYC, mid 1980’s

Statue of Liberty and WTC, NYC c. 1981

One Eye Covered, N.Y.C., c. 1983

Parade, 5th Ave, and 60th St., NYC, 1984

Pole Kiss, NYC, F Train, NYC, 1983

Portrait, 42nd Street Subway, 1983

Pussy Willows, Subway, NYC, C. 1983

Reading the Paper on the Train, NYC c.1982

Rockefeller Center Christian, NYC, 1986

Rose Saleswoman at Subway, NYC, c. 1986

Scheuer’s Uncle, 5th Ave., NYC, !995

Smokers, 5th ave., NYC mid 1980’s

Street Soup Lower East Side, NYC, c. 1982

Subway, Couple Eye to Eye, NYC, late 1980’s

Subway, Hairy Eyeballs, NYC c.1983

Tall Dark Dame, Madison Ave., NYC, c.1987

Trans on 32nd and 6th, c. 1994

Washington Square Park, N.Y.C., 1987

Woman in White Fur, N.Y.C. Subway, c. 1982

WTC, LIC, EL, 1983