“The Voice of the Village: Fred W. McDarrah Photographs”

MCNY revisits the tumult of 1960s New York in this exhibition of photos by Fred W. McDarrah, a photographer for The Village Voice. Now defunct, the Voice became the country’s most important alternative newspaper, thanks to its coverage of the countercultural upheavals that ran from the rise of the Beat Generation and the stirrings of the civil rights movement to the protests against the Vietnam War and the emergence of Feminism and Gay liberation that roiled the decade. McDarrah was there in the thick of things, capturing these developments and more in images that have become an essential record of a crucial juncture in American history.