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The photos were taken by Dinanda Nooney between January 1978 and April 1979
The photographer took 576 photos in around 200 homes in various Brooklyn neighborhoods in a near daily project that criss-crossed the borough
She specialized in taking pictures that captured the lives of ordinary people
One of the families she photographed was that of Jean-Michel Basquiat, then 18, who would go on to be one of the most celebrated painters of the 20th century
Nooney also worked on George McGovern s campaign in 1972 against Richard Nixon, photographing his rallies in Brooklyn
She donated the images to the New York Public Library in 1995. Nooney died at 86 on November 26, 2004