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A Documentary about Bill Cunningham??!! Sweet.

March 24, 2010

The most kickass street photographer in all NYC, Bill Cunningham, is the subject of a new documentary, Bill Cunningham New York, that’s playing at MoMA.

I was shocked the notoriously camera-shy cameraman actually agreed to be in the film. Apparently it took some doing. From the Times item:

The film, which is to open the New Directors/New Films series on Wednesday at the Museum of Modern Art, took 10 years to make. The first eight were spent trying to get Mr. Cunningham to cooperate. “It started in 2000,” said Richard Press, who directed the film. Philip Gefter, to whom Mr. Press is married, produced it. “Philip and I approached Bill. He just pooh-poohed the idea. He couldn’t entertain it. He said, ‘Why me? There’s no subject here.’”

Wish I could get up there to see it. See it for me, okay?