Bill Cunningham, the legendary fashion photographer, has died. “To see a Bill Cunningham street spread was to see all of New York.”

Bill Cunningham, the legendary fashion photographer, has died. “To see a Bill Cunningham street spread was to see all of New York.”

Saturday, June 25, 2016 5:10 PM EDT

Bill Cunningham, the street-style photographer whose photo essays for The New York Times memorialized trends ranging from fanny packs to Birkin bags, gingham shirts and fluorescent biker shorts, died Saturday in New York. He was 87.

In his nearly 40 years working for The Times, Mr. Cunningham operated both as a dedicated chronicler of fashion and as an unlikely cultural anthropologist, one who used the changing dress habits of the people he photographed to chart the broader shift away from formality and toward something more diffuse and individualistic. In the process, he turned into something of a celebrity himself.

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