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Whipped Hair and Kerouac : A Year In Lowell, Massachusetts (1987 – 1988)
This post begins with a look back to September 1, 1987. That’s when the teenagers above were skateboarding in Merrimack St. parking lot, Lowell, Massachusetts. Who were they then and where are they...
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The Dursley Carnival Pictures (1959)
Ah! lad, though we know not when, Love will be with us forever then: Always the same, Darby my own, Always the same to your old wife Joan. – Darby and Joan by Frederic Weatherly’s poem (late 1800s)...
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A Photographic History of Hip-Hop
Biggie Smalls, King of New York (1997). Photo by Barron Claiborne. ‘CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop’ salutes photographers whose pictures helped bring hip-hop from the streets to the global...
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Haight Street Hippies In The Summer of Love
Between March 29, 1967 and March 14, 1968, Charles Cushman loaded his camera with Kodachrome film and mooched along Haight St in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California. This was the Summer of Love....
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Fabulous Photographs of Paris in 1981
In May 1981 after thirty years of uninterrupted economic growth known as the Trentes Glorieuse combined with unemployment reaching a record nine per cent President Giscard was defeated by the...
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Tenement Kids And The City – Glasgow In 1975
“All of these photos were taken on a weekend return from art college to visit my parents in the east end of Glasgow in 1975,” says John J Brady. “I obviously hadn’t mastered the camera and light...
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Shopping at Glasgow’s The Barras Market In 1975
John J Brady worked weekends at Glasgow’s The Barras market. He took these photograph in 1975 on a trip home from art college to visit his parents in the east end of Glasgow. “I worked every...
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Watching ‘The Most Dangerous Animals In The World’ – The Bronx Zoo in 1963
On June 8, 1963, the Illustrated London News ran the following story about an exhibition at the gorilla house at The Bronx Zoo in New York City. The exhibit told visitors: “You are looking at the...
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‘I Am A Camera’: Jill Freedman’s Street Photography
“Gun Play, Street Cops,” 1979 Jill Freedman (October 19, 1939 – October 9, 2019) was one of America’s best and most respected documentary photographers. Immersed in the worlds of cops on the street...
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South Wales in The 1970s
“I believe that old photographs develop a special character. It’s a unique sheen imbued by the passage of time. Looking through these photographs today, four decades later, I find myself transported to...
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Sublime Street Photographs of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s
“My photographs with a strong pictorial aesthetic are still highly favored among the salons. Documentary style street photography or portraits are rarely selected although they are among my favorites....
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On The Streets for Philadelphia’s Bicentennial Party
Don Hudson is an “experienced amateur photographer trying to understand what I photograph”. In 1976, Don was in Philadelphia for the Bicentennial. Seemingly undiluted by Vietnam, Watergate and the...
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Wonderful Kodachrome Photos of London in 1949
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” – L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between This is Sloane Street, Knightsbridge[1], looking at the Holy Trinity Church, and then down to Sloane...
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London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater
Oxford Circus 1978 The first thing that strikes anyone who regularly rides on the London Underground is how clean it looks in Mike Goldwater’s photographs. Taken during the 1970s, Goldwater shows us a...
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What America’s Shopping Malls Looked Like In 1989
In 1989, Michael Galinsky, then a 20-year-old student, took a month to cross the USA. Everywhere he went, he photographed America’s shopping malls. Malls were places to hang out, shop and eat. They...
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On The Streets of Detroit Michigan in 1973
“And now for something completely different,” says Don Hudson, whose work we’ve seen before on Flashbak. “I have decided to post some images from my student days at what is now called College for...
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Photographs of Portobello Road in 1950
Portobello Road market, North Kensington, 1950 The Portobello Road of 1950 was a very different place than we know today. These photos were taken about the same time the road featured as a location in...
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Documerica: Danny Lyon’s Photos of New York City in the Summer of 1974
RKO Bushwick Theatre in Brooklyn, July 1974. Danny Lyon was born in Brooklyn in March 1942 and was brought up in Kew Gardens, Queens. He studied history and philosophy at the University of Chicago...
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The Lost Street Photographs of Pittsburgh by Elliott Erwitt (1950)
In September 1950 Elliott Erwitt (born Elio Romano Erwitt, 26 July 1928) was commissioned by Roy Stryker’s new Pittsburgh Photographic Library to record life in the city. (Stryker had headed the...
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Iconic Street Photographer Bruce Gilden’s Gritty Images of 70s and 80s New...
USA. NYC. 1978. Street photographers are a dime a dozen in a post-Warhol world, and everyone’s the star of the show. But street photographers are a far rarer breed who can turn the everyday into what...
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