The photographs of three major twentieth-century photographers - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Dorothy Bohm and Neil Libbert - of three great world cities across three crucial decades.
Neil Libbert was born in Salford in 1938. His career as a photo-journalist that brought him to London by 1961, where he worked for The Observer, The Sunday Times and New York Times. The selected images focus on his first visits to New York in the early 1960s, where he photographed across all social divides – from the affluent Upper East Side to the Harlem streets, capturing the 1964 race riots at close quarters.
Libbert’s work reflects the contrasts and tensions that he encountered, and his images of Harlem provide the viewer with a rare, unbiased view of this troubled area. Libbert’s work has been little exhibited and his New York images are some of his strongest.