Neil Libbert, who has worked for the Observer and the Guardian for nearly 60 years, took this photograph of ice-skaters in Central Park in December 1960. Libbert took the photo at the very end of a four-month trip across the country, starting in Oregon, accompanying the celebrated Guardian journalist WJ Weatherby. Of all the thousands of wonderful photographs that Libbert has had published in the Guardian and the Observer in the 58 years since, this one, he suggests, remains a perennial favourite. At a recent show of his work at the Michael Hoppen gallery in New York, prints were snapped up by American collectors. If the influence was there, he says, it was unconscious: “I think I just thought it looked like a good black-and-white image,” he says.

Source: The Guardian December 09, 2018 07:00 UTC