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Bill Cunningham New York, a film, by Richard Press


Bill Cunningham, now in his eighties, is a fashion photographer known for his candid street photography in the York Times style section. His images set the marker in the genre and his fantastic eye, which captured the essence of fashion trends before they hit the mainstream, cut across social boundaries from the famous – Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor and David Rockefeller (who appear in the f ilm eulogising Cunningham’s influence) – to eccentric wannabes and everybody in between. “The problem is I’m not a good photographer,” Cunningham said in the New York Times. “To be perfectly honest, I’m too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I’m not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That’s all there is to it.” This award-winning documentary captures the artist’s sense of self-effacing grace and powerful influence, as New York Vogue editor Anne Wintour famously summarised when she said: “We all get dressed for Bill.”


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