‘Downtown Lens’ Opens on the Soho Grand Hotel

The exhibition introduced out a wonderful crowd, younger and outdated. There have been punks, photographers and fashionistas alike admiring the images altogether. There have been additionally some stars in attendance, corresponding to Lauren Hutton, Micheal Halsband and Bob Gruen. Amongst them, conversations all through the exhibition have been made up of company reminiscing over shared experiences in that point interval, many having lived by it.

To them, the images acted as reflection to the previous and for some, it felt as in the event that they have been transported again to that point.

Artists, rock stars, and fashions have been the highlights of the exhibition, with stars corresponding to Grace Jones, Madonna and Andy Warhol making cameos all through. The {photograph} of Grace Jones specifically was positioned in a approach that reigned above the opposite images; in it, Jones has an intense stare, trying like she was crawling by the {photograph} and onto the exhibit ground.

Like Jones candid, in “Life through a Downtown Lens,” the images have been very within the second. Whether it’s the Rolling Stones rocking out on stage. or Nico singing at CBGB, it felt like one was really there. There was a way of authenticity proven within the images: most have been candids, and the way in which they have been shot urged viewers to work together with them.

More than something, the exhibit confirmed the true essence of what New York was. The curation confirmed the distinction between the grime and luxurious that flooded the New York streets within the ‘70s and ‘80s.

The exhibit is open till May 3, 2026 at The Gallery at Soho Grand

Photography by Mark Minton