Victor Friedman

Lovely video and photographs from the BBC here

On a stoop

 'High society hairdresser's secret life as street photographer

D Train to
Brooklyn

By day Victor Friedman was a high society hairdresser tending to Manhattan's moneyed matrons. But away from the salon patronised by the likes of Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, Victor spent his time in New York City's more down-at-heel locales pursuing his passion for photography.

Man and
Mannequins, NYC

For more than 40 years, until his recent retirement from the coiffure trade, 83-year-old Victor straddled these two disparate worlds giving him a unique insight into the high and the low of New York society, as well as a treasure trove of stories and images of a city that has largely disappeared.'

Elizabeth Arden,
Fifth Avenue