{"id":150706,"date":"2025-01-10T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parisselectbook.com\/2025\/01\/10\/camera-girl-a-dive-into-the-new-york-nights-of-the-1980s\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T14:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:56:15","slug":"camera-girl-a-dive-into-the-new-york-nights-of-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parisselectbook.com\/en\/2025\/01\/10\/camera-girl-a-dive-into-the-new-york-nights-of-the-1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"“Camera Girl”: a dive into the New York nights of the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With “Camera Girl”, Sharon Smith offers us an unprecedented, intimate retrospective of the New York nightlife scene of the 1980s, where celebrities and the anonymous rubbed shoulders in an atmosphere of freedom and extravagance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

New York’s legendary clubs, such as the Ritz, Studio 54 and the Palladium, were places of effervescence, creativity and transgression. It was in these temples to partying that Sharon Smith, a young photographer armed with her Polaroid SX-70, immortalized the faces of this unbridled era for three dollars. Anonyms, celebrities and figures from various subcultures took their place in front of her lens, creating a series of raw, iconic images now collected in the book “Camera Girl”<\/strong>, published by Idea. <\/p>\n\n

Clubs, catalysts of an era<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

At the time, New York was a paradoxical city, combining creative energy and social brutality. Nightclubs became havens for marginalized communities, offering a space for expression and experimentation. According to Sharon Smith, these places represented a nocturnal tribe where notions of race, gender or social status dissolved, giving way to an ephemeral unity carried by music and dance. <\/p>\n\n

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A publication shared by Bill Shapiro (@billshapiro)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n