“As I began unsealing each packet and holding the negatives up to the light, it was like a trip back in time, back to the New York of the early ’50s.”
– Soren Larson finds his grandfather’s pictures of 1950s New York
When Frank Larson passed away in 1964, his wife Eleanora packed their belongings and moved out of their retirement home in Lakeville, Connecticut. Among the bags was a box of negatives, pictures Frank had taken in 1950s New York City.
And there they remained for five decades until Frank’s daughter-in-law, Carole Larson, found them among. Her son, Soren, takes up the story:
“I had seen a few examples of my grandfather’s photography over the years and always admired them – our old family photo albums have a few small prints of his work in them. My father also used to speak with admiration about his father’s love of photography and his weekend trips with his Rolleiflex into the city to film places like the Bowery, Chinatown and Times Square…