Photo Essays
Photo essays appear at the beginning of Borea's involvement with photography and remained a format that he worked in continually during the course of his career.
City is a Stage
"City is a Stage" (Pageant magazine, August 1970). Ballerina Anna Aragno with New York City as a backdrop.
Click for Additional Raimondo Borea Photos of NYC Dance.
Buitoni, Carnegie Hall
"Debut of a Lifetime" (Pageant magazine, May 1962). Giovanni Buitoni sings at Carnegie Hall.
Subway Series, 1970
Broadcast on the Today Show on December 21, 1970.
![[time lapse/special effects] imagery of passengers in train station](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52afa15ce4b042c7f0089b22/1440774033633-YJKM8K35T86FQYPN525C/Borea145.jpg)
Click for Additional Raimondo Borea Photos of the NYC Subway.
Demolition, Third Ave. El
Ceasing to operate in 1955, the Third Avenue El was the last remaining elevated railway in New York City.
![High contrast long view from street level of the [dismantling] of the Third Ave. El; the street is covered with cables](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52afa15ce4b042c7f0089b22/1440774178280-ERXMPKF2CP8XP83I6DVV/Borea115.jpg)
Washington Market
The Washington Market was started in 1812, in and around the area that would become the World Trade Center 150 years later. Burned, moved and rebuilt several times, the indoor market was torn down permanently in 1957. The following sequence of photographs date from 1956.
Click for Additional Raimondo Borea Photos of the Washington Market.
Social Documentary
Manuel Komroff, a founding member of the Circle of Confusion wrote:
"The members of the Circle represent a cross-section of our American photographic world. The aesthetic end is represented by Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Nicholas Muray, Konrad Cramer, Nat Resnick, and Andre Kertesz, to name a few. In the field of photojournalism, besides Alfred Eisenstaedt and Peter Stackpole, there are Rudi Hoffman, Raimondo Borea, John Madigan, and Adrian Siegel."
![A man eating [in soup kitchen]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52afa15ce4b042c7f0089b22/1450813531699-NH8GL09I8M1YI6XVU5RP/Borea142.jpg)
