Jonathan Becker Lost Time

Jonathan Becker: Lost Time is a major retrospective publication presenting the work of one of New York’s most distinctive and socially embedded portrait photographers — the man who spent decades documenting the city’s social, artistic, and intellectual elite through portraits of extraordinary intimacy and access. Becker’s photographs of writers, artists, curators, gallerists, and cultural figures in their homes and studios constitute an extraordinary social document — a portrait of New York’s cultural life from the 1970s to the present. Published by Phaidon with extensive scholarly commentary, this is an essential photography publication for anyone interested in portraiture, New York cultural history, and the relationship between photographer and subject when both inhabit the same world.