He was peddling his black-and-white photos of New York City’s majesty for $5 each in the 1980s — until a famous photographer came upon them in “astonishment.”
Source: New York Times
George Forss, 80, Photographer Discovered on the Street, Dies
Published in Deaths (Obituaries), Extraterrestrial Life, Forss, George, New York City, Nineteen Hundred Eighties, photography and Street Vendors (Non-Food)
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