Discovered street photography from the 1950's by Frank Oscar Larson on Petapixel.com

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“Frank Oscar Larson was an auditor living in Queens back in the 1950s who had a passion for street photography. Every weekend he would travel around the city armed with his Rolleiflex camera, photographing the things that caught his eye. After Larson died of a stroke at the age of 68 in 1964, his photographs quietly sat in a cardboard box for 45 years before finally being discovered by his son’s widow in 2009.”

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    Really wonderful collection.
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    I loved the photograph of all the pigeons with the giant Judy Garland marquee in the distance. Beautiful work.
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    second article I’ve read in as many days about...newly-discovered
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  12. turnabout reblogged this from istillshootfilm and added:
    These are gorgeous photos...an “amateur” photographer.
  13. chance0 said: Wow fantastic.
  14. koduri said: I am sure many photographers went undiscovered from that era. Just imagine if Flickr or Tumblr were around then?
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