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Christopher Bonanos

City Editor, New York Magazine
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Christopher Bonanos is New York’s city editor. He joined the magazine in 1993 and covers urbanism, transit, and theater, as well as running the magazine’s Reread newsletter and OldNYMag Instagram feed, surfacing the best of its archives. He is also the author of Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Biography of 2018, and Instant: The Story of Polaroid.

  1. from the archives
    The Diane Arbus Photo That Almost Killed New York MagazineRevisiting the Viva profile that nearly got Clay Felker fired.
  2. from the archives
    When Upscale ‘Unwed Mothers’ Were a Newborn TrendRevisiting Patricia Morrisroe’s 1983 New York feature, “Mommy Only.”
  3. lab work
    Inside Memorial Sloan Kettering’s High-Speed Pathology LabIs it cancer? They’ll know in half an hour.
  4. art
    Without Their Words, These Vintage Ads Starring Women Speak Even More LoudlyA preview of artist Hank Willis Thomas’s “Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915–2015.”
  5. encounter
    Talking to the Man Who Introduced Danish Modern Design to AmericaAt almost 99, Jens Risom is still working.
  6. design
    Massimo Vignelli: 5 Appreciations by 5 Design ProfessionalsWe are all surrounded by his work.
  7. fame
    See Imagined Portraits of the New Royal FamilyWith a special appearance from an iPhone-toting Queen Elizabeth.