A roiling epicenter of human interaction, akin to the moments leading up to the big bang, Times Square is a dizzying dance of people engaged in a constant gush of movement. In Betsy Karel’s America’s Stage: Times Square, tourists, hawkers, masquerading characters, lovers of free speech, brides and grooms are pictured in black and white streaming and weaving through the busy streets.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens a new exhibit on the oldest surviving archive of daguerreotypes by 19th-century French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey.