Friday, April 15, 2011

[Updated] A scene from East Sixth Street circa 1979


Shawn Chittle sent along this photo:

Kenny Scharf, John Sex and Keith Haring
East Sixth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue
June 1979

(The photo came to Shawn via Kenny Scharf)

And thanks to EV Grieve reader Larry Slade for bringing the photo to life ...



And here's one more color-corrected version via Worm Carnevale ...

4 comments:

Melanie said...

Great shot!!I remember the Indian Restaurant too!!

Ken from Ken's Kitchen said...

Great picture. Look at "regular kid" John Sex!

Media glut said...

Run this through photoshop for about 20 seconds and it would really come to life.

Shawn said...

The quick succession of photos, each with different color balance, is a tad Warhol... talk about full circle.