Joseph Szabo and Sian Davey's respective series, made of young people 50 years ago and today, demonstrate the unchanging power of adolescence
Take a look back at the 1970s through these really weird stock images. The decade that brought us platform shoes, giant lapels and bell bottoms brings you these amazingly awkward images from one of the oldest stock photo agencies in America — the H. Armstrong Roberts collection. (Images: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock, via Mashable/Retronaut)
Pit pony and handler at work, possibly Murton, 1970's. As with a lot of our archive photographs, sometimes we don't always know the full information so if you can offer any further information or fill in any gaps, please do! Date: 1970s Photo Number: 58182 From the Beamish Collections.
Men's 1970s hairstyles, including the shag, the afro, long hair, the mullet, punks and skinheads. It was a diverse and hairy decade!
From 1977 to 1980, while working at Columbia College Chicago and then the LIGHT Gallery in Midtown, photographer Charles H. Traub would hang out on the street during his lunch hour and ask people if he could take their portrait with his trusty Rolleiflex. During those years Traub took approximately 400 portraits, which are now collected in a new book called Lunchtime, which will be released by Damani Press in late September (you can pre-order it here, though). Following an artistic impulse that would baffle any self-respecting paparazzo, Traub was so intent on capturing the regular citizen in the street that he turned down the chance to shoot a trio of world-class celebrities. “Jackie Kennedy once stopped and said, ‘If you want to take my picture, please be quick,’ and I said no,” says Traub. “Just moments later Yoko Ono and John Lennon walked by and did the same thing. I took neither of their pictures because that wasn’t what I was there to do. I avoided celebrities.” The photographs capture the marvelous originality and individuality that people exhibit just by being themselves. So many of the great iconic photographs from the 1970s are black and white; Traub’s...
Born in 1954 in Los Angeles, Patty Hearst is the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, founder of the Hearst media empire. On February 4, 1974, at age 19, Hearst was kidnapped by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Not long after, she announced that she had joined the SLA and began participating in criminal activity with the group, including robbery and extortion. Hearst was captured by the FBI in September 1975, and the following year, she was convicted of bank robbery and sentenced to 35 years in prison. She was released early, in 1979, after President Jimmy Carter commuted her prison term. Patty Hearst was kidnapped on February 4, 1974. Hearst grew up in wealth and privilege as the daughter of Randolph A. Hearst, chairman of media conglomerate Hearst Corp., and Catherine Hearst, a University of California regent. Hearst's grandfather was famed publisher William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was abducted at gunpoint from the apartment she shared in Berkeley with her fiance, Steven Weed, pictured with Hearst. A radical group called the Symbionese Liberation Army, or SLA, took credit. A car at the Berkeley Police Department on February 5, 1974. Police said Hearst was blindfolded and thrown into the trunk of the car. Hearst's autobiography details her abuse at the hands of the SLA. In it she says she was kept locked in a closet for 57 days, as well as subjected to radical rantings, physical abuse and rape. Eventually she was offered the choice of joining the SLA or being killed. The SLA released a tape announcing Hearst's alignment with the SLA, including taking the name Tania. A photo of her holding a gun in front of the SLA's seven-headed cobra emblem was also released. On April 15, 1974, the SLA robbed a Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco. Security cameras captured this image of Hearst in the robbery. Assault rifle in hand, Hearst joins DeFreeze in robbing a San Francisco bank on April 15, 1974. It was her first crime as a professed SLA member. Four days after the robbery, the FBI released this wanted poster, featuring Hearst, far right, as a material witness, and SLA members suspected of taking part in the heist. Leader Donald DeFreeze is at top left. Hearst was arrested in San Francisco on September 18, 1975, 18 months after the kidnapping. The exterior of the Symbionese Liberation Army house, at 1827 Golden Gate, where Hearst was held in the closet is seen on February 16, 1976. At her trial for bank robbery, Hearst said she had been brainwashed by the group and feared for her life, but a jury found her guilty. She was sentenced to seven years in prison. Hearst was released on bail on November 19, 1976, while her attorneys appealed her case. Here, she is reunited with her parents, Catherine and Randolph Hearst in their San Francisco home on November 20, 1976. The appeal was denied and Hearst returned to prison. After Hearst served nearly two years in prison, President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence in early 1979. Here, she mugs for the camera at the Federal Correctional Institute at Pleasanton, California, on January 31, 1979. Hearst holds up the executive grant of clemency as she leaves prison on February 1, 1979. With her is her fiance and former bodyguard, Bernard Shaw. Hearst is walked down the aisle by her father, Randolph Hearst, at the Navy chapel at her wedding to Bernard Shaw in April 1979. (via CNN)
Nostalgic photographs that capture Hong Kong in its prime in the 1970s and '80s.
David Hamilton (1933 – 2016) was a British photographer, who grew up in London. His schooling was interrupted by World War II. As an evacuee, he spent some time in the countryside of Dorset, which inspired his work. After the war, Hamilton returned to London and finished school before moving to France where he has lived ever since. His artistic skills began to emerge during a job at an architect's office. At age 20, he moved to Paris, where he worked as graphic designer for Peter Knapp of ELLE magazine. After becoming known and successful, he was hired away from ELLE by Queen magazine in London as art director. Hamilton soon returned to Paris and there became the art director of Printemps, the city's largest department store. Hamilton began photographing commercially while still employed, and the dreamy, grainy style of his images quickly brought him success. His photographs were in demand by other magazines such as Realites, Twen and Photo. By the end of the 1960s, Hamilton's work had a recognizable style. His further success included many dozens of photographic books with combined sales well into the millions, five feature films, countless magazine publishings and scores of museum and gallery exhibitions. As much of Hamilton's work depicts early-teen girls, often nude, he has been the subject of some controversy and even child pornography allegations. Hamilton's photographs have long been at the forefront of the "is it art or pornography?" debate.
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Tricia Porter captures the everyday life of a Liverpool community in the 1970s
From 1977 to 1980, while working at Columbia College Chicago and then the LIGHT Gallery in Midtown, photographer Charles H. Traub would hang out on the street during his lunch hour and ask people if he could take their portrait with his trusty Rolleiflex. During those years Traub took approximately 400 portraits, which are now collected in a new book called Lunchtime, which will be released by Damani Press in late September (you can pre-order it here, though). Following an artistic impulse that would baffle any self-respecting paparazzo, Traub was so intent on capturing the regular citizen in the street that he turned down the chance to shoot a trio of world-class celebrities. “Jackie Kennedy once stopped and said, ‘If you want to take my picture, please be quick,’ and I said no,” says Traub. “Just moments later Yoko Ono and John Lennon walked by and did the same thing. I took neither of their pictures because that wasn’t what I was there to do. I avoided celebrities.” The photographs capture the marvelous originality and individuality that people exhibit just by being themselves. So many of the great iconic photographs from the 1970s are black and white; Traub’s...
St. Valentine's Day is a fitting day to show you some of the novels that pandered to women's romantic fantasies during the 1970s. Same Job Less Pay (1970) tells the story of a woman who falls in love with a co-worker. When she finds out that he earns twice as much as she does, she's so relieved she doesn't have to carry around all that heavy money that she bakes some pretty little cakes and falls pregnant. Biological Necessity (1976) is about a woman who, having failed to meet a partner with an emotional IQ higher than a sandwich, takes an evening eugenics class in which she learns that romance is an overvalued social construct and that she is in fact most compatible with men who have a strong EPAS1 gene and an income of more than 100k per annum. Carcinoma Equals Inheritance (1971). A woman encourages her husband to smoke in a bid to kill him for the substantial inheritance. When he dies, she suddenly remembers that she was the wealthy one all along. Shortly afterwards, a young, penniless con man falls in love with her and proposes marriage. On the honeymoon he encourages her to get drunk on vodka and take part in a series of dangerous sports. Set in the year 1620, Tortured In The Name Of God's Unconditional Love (1974) is about a woman who falls in love with a pious town elder. She tries to tell him and other backward villagers about rudimentary first-world concepts such as interpersonal communication skills and oral hygiene. She is subsequently tortured and killed by a devout lynch mob, headed by her would-be lover, whose grasp of such things extends to believing that the demonic spirits of pigs can destroy crops by hiding in your nose.
Ans Westra - Mokai, near Wairakei, 1984
The Surreal Illustrations Of 1970s Textbooks
The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.
17 year old George had always had trouble with bullies, so his father decided to get him a BodyGuard. Who knows what will happen from there. Fanart is not mine This story include sexual references, swearing, smut, and angst.
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Library music is often used in television, radio and film productions. This low-budget, pre-written music is intended to convey particular moods to the audience. Entire LPs, named by theme and often in multiple volumes, are dedicated to a wide variety of moods and concepts such as 'business dynamism', 'modern leisure', 'relaxed terror', 'perky dismay' and 'unspecified uncertainty'. The library music records presented here were found in the Scarfolk Council archive. Our files show that audio from them was included not only in many of Scarfolk's public information and infant indoctrination films, but they were also the soundtracks to party political broadcasts of the 1970s. Library music was also used by large corporations in their threatening advertising campaigns, as well as the aggressive training and breaking of ineffective, altruistic employees. Additionally, subliminal audio from releases such as 'Sound Frequencies to Induce Unconditional Obedience' (Music de Scarfolke, 1970) was broadcast on all local television channels on the hour, every 8 hours, for a duration of 3 seconds. It triggered in citizens the compulsion to stand at their open front doors and shout out confessions to thought crimes they had perpetrated during the day. Teams of social workers hiding in bushes and beneath cars recorded the confessions for later exploitation by the state. For example, up until 1979, a portfolio of each citizen's crimes was buried with him so that any outstanding sentences or punishments incurred in this life may be carried over into the next.
Take a look back at the 1970s through these really weird stock images. The decade that brought us platform shoes, giant lapels and bell bottoms brings you these amazingly awkward images from one of the oldest stock photo agencies in America — the H. Armstrong Roberts collection. (Images: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock, via Mashable/Retronaut)
Seriously silly pics of (theoretically) sexy seventies studs. Dig the polyester! And the staches! And the pouffy hair! And the sideburns! And the discreetly placed baby lion (!), bubbles, & car door, not to mention the very subtle yacht boom!
Invasive species have cost the global economy at least $1 trillion since 1970 and $162.7 billion in 2017 alone. The annual cost is increasing.
