Interesting stuff going on in New York this month.

The Museum of the City of New York's "3 On The Subway" exhibition is running until January 17. As part of the New York subway's centennial celebrations, the museum is running this three-part exhibit of subway photos by Bruce Davidson, Camilo José Vergara, and Sam Hollenshed. Davidson and Vergara both shot color photos on the subway. Hollenshed recorded the post September 11th rebuilding of the 1/9 line in lower Manhattan. Good stuff.

The Met is still running Few Are Chosen: Street Photography and the Book, 1936–1966 (until March). Few Are Chosen has 35 prints from Walker Evans, Bill Brandt, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Klein, and Robert Frank. The exhibit displays original prints alongside the photo books that made them famous; it is interesting to see how book-presentation changes the message or context of the original photos. ICP did this with their Looking at Life exhibition. It was particularly interesting to see the full prints alongside the magazine reproductions.

Speaking of The Met, they reproduced Walker Evans' book, Many Are Called. Originally published in 1966, The Met and Yale University have beautifully reproduced the photos in Evans' chronicle of his subway photography from 1938 to 1941. I know it is a bit cliche to claim the photos are "beautifully reproduced," but they really are.

If this kind of thing interests you, Many are Called is worth a look.