Tag Archives: 1970s
Looking Back On Joyce Maynard
February 3, 2012 — by
Joyce Maynard was writing for Seventeen Magazine when she was still a teenage prep school student at Phillips Exeter Academy. She had only been going to college for one year at Yale when she boldly sent a collection of her writings to the editors of the New York Times Magazine. They commissioned her first major writing assignment, the seminal and iconic generational essay “An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back On Life” in 1972.
Poster Youth
January 27, 2012 — by
La Raza Community Centre offered a variety of activities and support for local youth of San Diego during the late 70s–early 80s. La Raza Silkscreen Centre taught kids the skills needed to design their own posters. Powerful prints!
Iggy and the Stooges, Farmington High
January 10, 2012 — by
Seriously punk pics of Iggy Pop performing to grateful students at Farmington High School in Oakland, Michigan on December 5, 1970.
“I was there as a sophmore…The show also featured Brownsville Station and Mitch Ryder. Iggy only played four songs before collapsing in the middle of the gym floor on the lap of another one of my pals who was in ninth grade at the time.”
—Pete, Farmington High School pupil in 1970
Street Snaps
December 23, 2011 — by
Prolific photographer Martha Cooper captured the gritty culture of New York City streets during the 1970s and ’80s. She’s best known for cataloging the endless tags and murals of influential 80s graffiti artists, respecting their work as art. Check out her books of photographs: Hip Hop Files: Photographs 1979-1984, Subway Art and Tag Town.
Deep End
December 21, 2011 — by
Deep End is about love in the most unlikely, and humid, of places.
Mike lives in the suburbs of London and needs cash, so he takes a job at the local bathhouse. While the patrons’ lecherous advances leave Mike relatively unscathed, it is his initially innocent attraction to his coworker that creates waves. The premise is simple but the film drew substantial acclaim following its release at the 1970 Venice Film Festival. The original soundtrack became almost as famous as the film, with tracks from Can and Cat Stevens.
Deep End will receive a limited run from December 16-22 at BAMcinématek.
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