Print Ain't Dead in NYC

In a digitally-crazed city that never stops moving, one New York photographer reveals that everyone from pop stars to the homeless still gets lost in print.

Photos by Lawrence Schwartzwald

Back in the early ’70s, probably 1971 or 1972, I picked up a copy of André Kertész's On Reading, which had recently been published. I was impressed by, and a bit envious of, his black-and-white photographs of people in different cities around the world, all in the act of reading.