Photographer David Godlis and writer Luc Sante talk with Alex and Harry about Godlis Streets, his new book of 1970s street photography, and what was alluring about capturing glimpses of that city and the sometimes alluring “generalized small-time crumminess of so much of that decade.”
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All photos courtesy of David Godlis, and all of them from Godlis Streets except for the last one which is his shot of the man who then punched him for taking it.