Langdon Clay
Works
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Laundromat, 1977 -
New York Times Week in Review with Ripening Tomatoes, 2003 -
King's Inn Car, Hoboken New Jersey, 1975
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161 Car, Chrysler New Yorker, 16th Street and 7th Avenue, 1974 -
Basketball Car, Plymouth Duster, 1974
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Marlin Room Car, Cutlass Supreme in front of the Marlin room and Lounge, Hoboken, NJ, 1975
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Colonial Car, Chevrolet Nova 230, Hoboken, NJ, 1975
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American Hotel Car, Volkswagen 1600 Squareback Hoboken, NJ, 1974
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Mondrian Cab, Checker Marathon Yellow Cab, West Village, 1975
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King's Inn Car, Chevrolet Caprice, Hoboken, NJ, 1975
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Silver Fish, Chevrolet Impala Custom Coupe in front of Con Edison Substation, 1975
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Carz-A-Poppin, Ford Galaxie 500 (1966), Houston and Broadway, 1976
Biography
Langdon Clay Biography
Langdon Clay was born in the middle of a hurricane in New York City in 1949. He grew up in New Jersey and Vermont and went to school in New Hampshire and Boston. He got his first camera on St. Patrick's Day, 1968. His first roll of film was of Robert Kennedy leading the parade in New York. Three months later the presidential candidate was assassinated. Langdon Clay moved to New York in 1971 and spent the next 16 years photographing there and around the country and in Europe for magazines and books like Jefferson's Monticello by Howard Adams and the Burgandy cookbook My Chateau Kitchen by Anne Willen. In 1987, Langdon Clay moved to Mississippi and has worked from there with his wife photographer Maude Schuyler Clay. They have three adult children; Anna, Schuyler, and Sophie. His book CARS - New York City, 1974-1976 was published by Stiedl in December 2016.
