The photography of Frank Oscar Larson.
"A bookstore in Lower Manhattan is seen looking down a dark alley April of 1958." (Click to enlarge)
You can't help but wonder exactly what kind of books they sold there.
Larson was a banker and keen amateur photographer:
His weekend excursions round New York with his Rolleiflex camera produced thousands of images, which Frank developed and printed in his basement darkroom. Some he entered in amateur photographic competitions where he won awards, but the majority of his work remained undiscovered until 2009 when his youngest son's widow found a box of negatives that had been packed away since Frank's death.
It invites comparison with the similar case of Vivian Maier, the Chicago nanny whose huge cache of photographs from the same sort of period was recently discovered and exhibited.
Reflections of New York is now on display at The Perfect Exposure Gallery in Los Angeles.
Mick Hartley 
Leave a comment