Vivian Cherry is a celebrated Photo League photographer, whose work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, the New York Public Library, the National Portrait Gallery, and Microsoft, amongst others. Her images have appeared in Popular Photography, Life, Sports Illustrated, Redbook, and Ebony, as well as the famed magazines of yesteryear: This Week, Pageant, Colliers, Amerika, and Sinclair Oil. She made several short films and worked with photographer Arnold Eagle as a still photographer on a film about Lee Strasberg and the Lee Strasberg Institute.

Helluva Town is an important collection of photographs of Lower East Side, the Third Avenue El (and it’s ensuing demolition), the streets of Harlem, Hell’s Kitchen, and the Meat Packing District. This is one of my favorite projects - ever.