Patchin

16x20 inch Black & White print on Epson Art Cotton Smooth 250 gram paper. From the NYC Village Halloween Parade, 1982–86.

An oversized, craggy-faced puppet looms in the foreground of this black-and-white scene, its exaggerated features and veined texture highlighted by the sharp burst of a Norman 200B Flash. Captured during the NYC Village Halloween Parade between 1982 and 1986, the photograph features the Patchin Station post office as a distinct urban backdrop, where spectators huddle behind vintage wooden police barricades. Among the crowd, a man wearing a distinctive Bangles helmet stands near others dressed in the quintessential leather and denim fashions of the mid-1980s. The 35mm Pentax and Kodak Tri-X film translate the nighttime energy into a high-contrast, grainy study of street-level theatricality and public fascination. This evocative image documents a moment where the surreal world of puppets intersects with the gritty, authentic atmosphere of Greenwich Village.