Sidewalk superstars of New York: Frank Horvat's fabulous farewell – in pictures
The great photographer, who has died aged 92, loved the bustle of the Big Apple. Sidewalk, his love letter to its street life, was published this month
• Frank Horvat, groundbreaking French photographer, dies aged 92
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Drugs shop entrance, 1984
Frank Horvat was born in 1928 in what is now Opatija, Croatia, but was then part of Italy. He got his first camera as a teenager, having swapped his stamp collection for it. All photographs: Frank Horvat/Hatje Cantz -
Rain in Central Park, 1983
He studied at the Brera Academy in Milan and made his first trip to Paris in 1950, where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa -
Little girl in the back of a car, 1985
Horvat became a renowned photojournalist and fashion photographer, one of the first to turn to digital -
Homeless person in yellow sleeping bag, 1984
Sidewalk, the book by Horvat that was published this month, features photographs taken in the streets of New York from 1979 to 1986 -
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Street crossing with yellow cab, 1985
New York was a kind of refuge for Horvat. Here he surrendered himself to the hustle and bustle of the streets, capturing their multifaceted lives -
Sealed up building, 1983
As well as capturing street life, Horvat reflected in diary entries on his personal method of finding images and the significance of photography itself -
Balloons in the subway, 1984
These photographs and writings were created for himself personally, in between commissions. Many of them have never been published before -
Boy sleeping in subway, 1985
Horvat, a Magnum photographer, spent the late 1950s and early 1960s travelling between Paris, New York and London -
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Subway at rush hour, 1982
Horvat was a fan of digital technology, latterly using Photoshop to help him compensate for poor vision in one eye -
Father and child in the subway, 1984
On 2011, he created his own iPad app, Horvatland. “Photography,” says its title page, “is the art of not pushing the button”
