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