Flo Fox, an indomitable photographer who was born blind in one eye and later lost her vision in the other from multiple nervous sclerosis, which she finally had from the neck to the bottom, but never stopped shooting at what it is The name The “paradoxical reality” of the streets of the streets in New York died on March 2 in her apartment in Manhattan. It was 79.
Her son and direct survivor, Ron Reding, said that the apparent reason is the complications of pneumonia.
Inspired by 13 explicit photos of the street scene you took Robert FrankShe asked her mother the camera, but she was said to wait until she finished high school. After graduation, the theater and TV brands were designed.
She was not until 26 years old – and she got married, gave birth and crushed – she finally got a camera, and Ster -Menlta with her first salary from the new fashion design function. In an interview, Mr. Redenger said, “She stopped her design work after her multiple sclerosis, making her hands and making it difficult to work with styles of clothing.” In the end, I survived most of the social security and the doctor.
Over the next five decades, it took about 180,000 pictures, published a book, contributed to many publications and offered its work at the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Foundation and exhibitions around the world – although it is lawful and dependent on a wheelchair.
In 2013, she was subjected to OP-DOC movie From the New York Times, directed by Riley Hopper.
“I always felt that I have one wonderful feature that was born blind in one eye and not having to close that eye while taking a photo,” she He said The Leica Society International Journal, in 2022. All I had to do is framing the image completely. “
When the vision in the left eye faded from the point of view of a gauze-it was more like looking at “socks”, Mrs. Fox turned into an automatic automatic automatic camera of 35 mm. Initially, she released her shutter by pressing a rubber bulb in her mouth; Later, I recruited the help of taking pictures after putting the fire. She started filming late in the day or at night, to avoid the glow whose eyes were strained.
By 1999, she felt paralyzed from the neck down, but she continued to capture explicit urban panels until her condition worsened in 2023. In an interview with the site 2015 with the website New York SupportingShe described herself as “a tourist every day in my city.”
“Photography is my existence”, written in the biography On its website. After losing one photo in Lifetime Op, she said-she saw what I thought was a flying plate over Abingdon Square Park in Greenwich Village-you didn’t go anywhere without her camera.
In 1981, 69 of its black and white pictures of New York City were collected in the 1970s in the “Asphalt Gardens”, a book published by the National Center for Access, which he described as celebrating as “an indomitable human spirit against an unidentified regime.”
Mrs. Fox also appeared at the International Center for Photography, in Life and Inn Many other booksIncluding “Women See Men”, “Women Photo Men” (published in 1977) and “Women See Women” (1978).
In 1999, an exhibition showed her pictures like to be a wheelchair most of the time. The group has been published to encourage companies and public employees to improve access to persons with disabilities.
Among the favorite photographs of Mrs. Fox are images that look at the bottom of the Flatiron building and the original World Trade Center. I arranged many topics, put them on music and Spread it On YouTube.
Some of her pictures were entitled “Family”: One called “I absorb everyone” was a picture of a driver sucking a cigarette while a little girl in the back seat absorbs her thumb. Another, called “Cover Girl”, shows an advertising plate with a lying model wearing tight clothes, and its face is blocked by hemp fabric as the workers of the workers below.
Florence Blossum Fox was born on September 26, 1945, in Miami Beach, one of the children of Paul and Clair (Power) Fox. Her father had moved the family to Florida from New York City to open a honey factory; He died when Flo 2 was, and her mother returned the family to Wodeside, Queens. Twelve years later, her mother died, and Flu went to live with his aunt and uncle in Long Island, where she joined the University of Douglas Mac Arthur, in Levitown.
“When I left the house, I got my real education on the streets,” she remembered in an interview with the camera lens. “At the age of 18, marriage and motherhood came at the same time.”
She was brave like her pictures, which were very self -studied, were brave like her pictures. “You know the greatest loss when you are handicapped? I can’t even give people the finger anymore.” He said The Daily News of New York in 2019.
She said in 2015, she was hoping that her legacy would be, “I was a harsh chick.”
She expressed her hope that another heritage is to help enhance laws to improve access to persons with disabilities Giving To the ordinary New York residents you photographed.
She wrote in her memorial, which she drafted about 15 years ago after learning that lung cancer “for more than 30 years, Flo Fox photographed writing on the walls and any artwork that people left to keep their memory.” “Now in death, Flo asks to leave your signature, first letters, brand, or writing on the walls on their coffin.”
Some of those whose voices were unable to see have never seen their own artistic works – including visually handicapped students in the photography semester in the lighthouse, which is run by the New York Association for the Blind (now Al -Manara Syndicate).
“Those wanted in the chapter to know what they faced and what the view was outside the windows of their bedroom,” I remembered. She added, “They brought the photos they took, saying:” Then we described all the colorful details for them. “
When one of her blind students showed a photo he took from his bedroom, He said For him, “There are trees outside your window”, and the man’s man.
