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Editor's note: This excerpt first appeared in photographer and author Harold Davis' recent Focal Press book, Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Photography with Harold Davis.
The closer you...
It used to be small and crowded
and down Christopher Street in the Village. Now it is big and crowded and up 6th
Avenue starting in Greenwich Village and continuing up to around 20th Street.
It was probably a lot wilder and less clothed and more gay in the good old
days. Now whole families turn out, not to mention half the NYPD.
The costumes at left are impressive, but somehow I was more drawn to the one
on the right (no, that is not a self-portrait).
My friend Norman (at left) was upset that I didn't recognize him. However, I
had no trouble recognizing a group of friends dressed as the Four Seasons
(right).
Generic Parade Snapshots
After the Parade
Traditionally, there is an all-night, mostly naked, mostly drunken party
along Christopher Street following the parade. I didn't have the stamina to stay
for the whole thing, but people did appear to be a little more, uh,
unbuttoned.
