Updated: November 2001

Winner of Best Photo Book, Photo District News, 2000

"The portraits in 1000 on 42nd Street are mug shots, but they're not the ones you might have thumbed through after a chain snatching. Nope, these faces belong to folks who happened to be walking down 42nd Street on two days in March of 1998. They came from as far away as Asia and as close as 43rd Street, and not a single person was turned away by the photographer. Neil Selkirk's enormous portraits, which brightened the scaffolding along the formerly infamous thoroughfare, are now available in this collection from powerHouse Books." —Time Out New York

"As fun as it was to encounter these oversized heads, decontextualized in the bustling atmosphere in which they were created, there is a different sort of irresistibility in holding this small-format book in your hand and poring over the quirky personalities therein.... Among the 1,000 is punked-out Robin, who's in the area "looking for smack," and a glamorous, elderly woman named Venus, whose inexplicable quote is 'Don't speak! Don't speak!' as she vamps for the camera. There are celebrity cameos to ferret out to, including Fran Leibowitz and Oscar de la Renta." —Photo District News

"Selkirk, who began his career working with Diane Arbus, knows how to frame a face, and there's a vitality here that runs counter to much recent art-infected portraiture... the savvy can sort out the tourists, teenage runaways, rap stars, and Broadway performers while also savoring the faces on their singular merits." —Andy Grundberg, "Coffee Table," Bookforum

"Neil Selkirk takes people as he finds them in 1000 on 42nd Street, a visual record of faces, famous and otherwise, who passed the photographer's porta-studio on the boulevard of broken dreams during its ambitious and controversial restoration. In Selkirk's photo gallery, Times Square's crossroads reputation is winningly validated, and everybody is a star." —Flaunt

Bonus Broadcast Appearance !!
“New York and Company with Leonard Lopate” WNYC – September 28, 2000 at 1:45pm