“Lucky Man Speier,” they call him, and this is true. At the tender age of 88, native New Yorker Len Mitchell Speier is receiving his due with his first solo exhibition of photographs, Nearly Everybody, currently on view at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, now through October 29, 2016. Drawn from an archive that spans six decades, the show features 48 vintage photographs made in New York and Europe between the 1960s and ‘80s. As with many things in his life, Nearly Everybody came about through the fortunes of fate. Following the success of her recent exhibition Bacalaitos & Fireworks at the gallery, Speier asked photographer Arlene Gottfried if she could introduce him to Daniel Cooney; Gottfried said it was okay to use her name so Speier did just that. Cooney remembers, “The call came out of the blue. After we spoke, I Googled him and not much popped up. I went up to visit him at his apartment and that was it. It was an amazing moment.” Speier, who received his first camera at thirteen years old, has been taking photographs throughout his life. He specializes in street photography, in seeing the world as it unfolds before our eyes, relying on the twin engines of chance and dexterity—to see it as it happens and capture it before its gone. Read more at http://www.craveonline.com/art/1029609-nearly-everybody-comes-together-celebrate-photographs-len-speier#1wA3JYPeh3v0hQRe.99 Read more at http://www.craveonline.com/art/1029609-nearly-everybody-comes-together-celebrate-photographs-len-speier#1wA3JYPeh3v0hQRe.99