10/21/2026
In 1972, Masao Gozu began photographing strangers at the moment they looked out of their windows. The thousands of images he took form an architectural and psychological portrait of New York City across decades.
In 2025, he went back to sites where he had photographed windows decades earlier and took the pictures again. Some buildings have changed dramatically or vanished, while others have held, with surprising continuity.
The first US museum exhibition of his work, Masao Gozu: Windows and Bars opens November 5 and runs through March 15, 2027.
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Masao Gozu. "Eldridge Street, Lower East Side, September 1972." 1972.
Masao Gozu. "Mulberry Street, Little Italy, 11am, September 28, 1975." 1975.