NEW YORK, NY.- Laurence Miller Gallery presents THE BIG APPLE: From Tycoons to Raccoons, featuring over 65 photographs by more than 30 photographers made between 1903 and 2016, celebrating the diversity and energy of New York City. The show title embraces both the earliest and the most recent works in the show: a rare 1903 portrait of the tycoon J.P. Morgan by Edward Steichen, in contrast to a charming view of a family of raccoons in Central Park by Hilary Swift, taken this past December.

Much like Manhattan itself, the show is loosely organized by neighborhood and geography. Central Park is a central theme, and along with Swift’s raccoons, we witness a drowning by Dave Heath, a woman holding a child by Diane Arbus, the San Remo at night by Jefferson Hayman, and a delicate 1965 color landscape by Evelyn Hofer.

Manhattan as an island is another theme, dominated by three nine-foot panoramas by Kenneth Snelson, featuring the Brooklyn Bridge, the World Trade Center, and the FDR Drive. They are accompanied by mid-20th century views of ferries and ships by Berenice Abbott and Wendell MacRae, and mysterious color abstractions of the surface of the Gowanus Canal by Steven Hirsch.

The Empire State Building looms large, a platform for bird’s-eye views, including Berenice Abbott’s classic New York at Night and Luca Campigotto’s View Looking North, both capturing the density and the radiance of the city at night. In an unusual treatment, Miguel Angel Garcia’s southern view reveals our unique skyline punctuated with water towers. Nearby is a Weegee of a couple atop the Empire State in the wind.

Midtown is anchored by another Kenneth Snelson panorama of Times Square, surrounded by a collection of strongly gestural images by Louis Faurer, Garry Winogrand, Sylvia Plachy and Weegee. In stark contrast is a group of colorful pictures by Linda Troeller of the Chelsea Hotel.

From uptown to downtown, photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Frank, Paul Strand, Ralston Crawford, Val Telberg, Helen Levitt, Neal Slavin, Lois Conner, Kazuo Sumida, Betsy Karel, and Lisette Model captured the essence of the Big Apple.