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Posts Tagged: 1960s
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So Bershon
According to the Urban Dictionary bershon is the irritated expression made when you’re 13 and your parents force you to wear a Christmas sweater and pose for a family portrait.
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Terrifying! Gangs! of England!
Hells Angels (of the British variety) are also known as ‘The Grease’.
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Leningrad Album
“One day, in Leningrad in the late sixties, a boy—or maybe two—endowed with a sensitive judgment and feeling for art imagined the following: how might the best girls, mentally, intellectually and visually seen, dream of him, although not only that…” Evgenij Kozlov
These eye popping drawings are by 14-year-old Evgenij Kozlov, made in 1960s communist Russia.
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16 in Webster Groves
Sixteen year olds in Webster Groves see nothing to rebel about.
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Fan Mania
Beatles fans at Warwick Hotel in 1965 (via here)
Here’s a youth culture theme: screaming fan girls.
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Black Britain: A Photographic History
Left: ‘A young dandy wearing a formal suit and Top hat, circa 1890’ Right: ‘Conroy Campbell, a pupil at Willesden High school, 1973’
I just rediscovered this book; Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy put it together in 2007.
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Atherton Lin Presents: On Running
Right now Jamie and I are trying to finish the illustrations for our 2012 wall calendar, which is all about walking.
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Freedom Summer, Mississippi
Photograph taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason of local teenagers at a social gathering in Dr.
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Uganda Uniform
These bright, young Masindi Senior Secondary School students wear crisp white short-sleeved collared shirts emblazoned with their fire red school emblem.