{"id":18179,"date":"2025-07-18T05:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18179\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:36:27","slug":"portraits-on-the-uws-in-the-1970s-and-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18179\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraits on the UWS in the 1970s and 80s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-95224 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/desktop307.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Text and photographs by Stephen Harmon<\/p>\n<p>By now West Side Rag readers know how much I loved taking candid photos and permission portraits of people I saw and met on the Upper West Side in those vanished days of the 1970s and 80s. Here is another group.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you find something to enjoy<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95225 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img332-e1752419807952.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"643\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95226 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/desktop998-2-e1752419922267.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95227 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/desktop861-e1752420043484.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"608\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95228 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/desktop079-e1752420200768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95229 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img261-e1752420361108.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"701\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95230 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img20230630_12591090-e1752420521839.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"704\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95231 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/desktop013-e1752420632994.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"657\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95232 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/XX-2-e1752420748254.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-95234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/desktop384.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95235 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/desktop583-e1752421038769.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95236 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/desktop511.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Harmon\u00a0is a longtime Upper West Sider, a retired lawyer, and a world-class photographer whose work is on display in many of the city\u2019s museums, including The Museum of the City of New York, The Brooklyn Museum, New York Historical, and The New York Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our audio interview with Stephen Harmon on Rag Radio \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2025\/03\/13\/rag-radio-steve-harmons-throwback-images-keep-the-old-uws-in-focus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to West Side Rag\u2019s FREE email newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westsiderag.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=5772ebf2a0a585445f1188785&amp;id=f50755d5f9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. And you can Support the Rag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/support-west-side-rag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Text and photographs by Stephen Harmon By now West Side Rag readers know how much I loved taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-18179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}