'The Street Work of John Crosley'

I took photos briefly beginning at age 21 in Manhattan, sold to NY Daily News, NY Times, and Time-Life Group with 'street' photos, several related to assassinations (Margin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy), race riots in New York City, Trenton, N.J.., and Washington, D.C., and the seizure and shut down by students and radicals of Columbia Univ., my alma mater, I used my just purchased Nikon. Here is a brief smattering of some of my better street work, from NYC streets and elsewhere, including recently. When I began shooting in early 1968 unti l5 years ago, I had not heard the word 'street' attached to such photos, and instead they were found and categorized as 'documentary' or photojournalism, etc. The word 'street' did not enter my own vocabulary to describe any of my work until after I joined a photo sharing site 15 years ago. Such photos on that site were not then popular but, my work had instant popularity, causing me to shoot new work in addition to older work I had joined a host site to post. I was surprised to receive views of two million the first year and now est. 300 million views. I then went to Vietnam where I freelanced, was Medivacced to the US, , freelanced S.F. Bay Area campus riots, was hired by Associated Press, but on advice from Henri Cartier-Bresson promptly quit (or turned down) my 'new hire' job as staff photographer for Associated Press, S.F., ,but on the day I 'quit' their photo job, they instead made me a staff writer/newsman/editor, for which I had no formal qualifications. I had NEVER written a news story, but my first story, a feature about a lost and found boy, went around the world often on front pages, assuring my career at AP which moved me to two new assignments, the last in NYC world headquarters to head a world wide department. iAt the end A) offered to have me understudy for the AP world boss to take his job when he retired. I had just turned 25. I refused, went back to school at Columbia to get my degree and also edited a business publication, went to law school and headed my own Silicon Valley law firm until retirement age 40. Some of these photos here were taken in the past few years during a 14-year photo revival starting in 2004. In fact when this presentation was initially completed it featured photos from 1968 through 'just the other day'. I continue to shoot prolifically and enjoy it immensely. john (John Crosley) All photos and captions copyright 1969-2019 John Crosley/Crosley Trust, all rights reserved. No reproduction, editing, rewriting, or other use without express prior written permission from copyright holder. john