Bill Cunningham New York Movie Analysis

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Bill Cunningham New York
Bill Cunningham New York directed by Richard Press is a tribute to a legendary New York streets photographer who devoted his whole life to street fashion photography without thinking of it as a door to fame or wealth. The movie drives us through Bill Cunningham love story with fashion especially women fashion and how he devoted his life to what he loves the most which is fashion photography. Cunningham captures the lives of others and has been a very important personality in New York streets, but he would rather live a simple life. He lives in a tiny apartment full of file cabinets with no personal bathroom and rides his bike around the streets of New York. The movie provides a fascinating and historical look of fashion

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