The Man Who Captured a Times Square That Is No More This weekend's Look section features rare photographs of the early "Saturday Night Live" cast hanging out in New York City in the mid-"70s. The pictures are from a larger series taken in Times Square by a photographer named Kenneth Siegel, who died at the age of 44 in 1994. Siegel came from a photography family - his uncle was Cornell Capa, photographer and founder of the International Center of Photography - and made his living as a photographer shooting mostly for nonprofit organizations. But his images of Times Square, one of which is shown above, were done for pleasure. He spent a lot of time hanging around the area, which at the time was known as a hangout for drug dealers and prostitutes. In a description that was found with the pictures, Siegel wrote: "Most of the portraits are of people I know, usually by street name. They all knew me or knew of me and often asked me to take their portrait. I could not have made these images without their cooperation. They express their need for recognition, and I graciously oblige them. After his death, Kenneth's widow, Ilyce Siegel, donated the photographs to the New-York Historical Society. Marilyn Satin Kushner, curator and head of the Department of Prints, Photographs and Architectural Collections there, says that the images not only record a bygone era but show Siegel's ability to connect with his subjects. "When I first saw the images, I immediately thought he had captured a world that was no more," she said. And in a very brash way. He got these people to open up to him. You see that connection in the images. He could get inside these people. Siegel's photos of Times Square life follow the S.N.L. shots in our slide show.