Some background:
In February 2023, the New York Public Library acquired the East Village Eye archive from founder and editor Leonard Abrams. The collection consists of documents, manuscripts, artworks, videos, ephemera, and a complete run of the original printed publication (72 issues in total), which was published from 1979 to 1987 and covered the neighborhood's arts, politics, and social currents during a transformative decade.
The collection also documents the daily workings of a small publication – advertising, correspondence, datebooks, financial records, and more. Contributors included resident advice columnist Cookie Mueller, Richard Hell, and David Wojnarowicz, and the newspaper featured images from dozens of acclaimed photographers early in their careers.
Sadly, Abrams died in April 2023, only a few months after the collection came to the NYPL. He was 68.
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that building is awesome
My first publication of photos , from the War in Nicaragua , was published in the EYE. Believe it or not , I was a federal fugitive at that time. Spenser Rumsey had given me a press letter which I used in Managua to get a Sandinista Press Pass. Thanks to Abrams and Rumsey I made a lifelong career of photojournalism. Not long before he died I had signed off with Leonard to include those photos in his archive. I was saddened to hear he had passed.
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