Joseph Szabo (a world-renown photographer) started his career as a photography teacher at Malverne High School in Long Island. He brought a camera into school to capture the personal moments of rebellious youth on his first days at school. These photographs are beautiful and unique in their own classes. The 60s and 70s were the periods of hippies which rejected the mores of mainstream American life. Their fundamental ethos includes harmony with nature, communal living, living relationships, artistic experimentation, particularly in music, and the widespread use of recreational drugs. Some of these teenagers belong to the same culture. More info: Joseph Szabo
50+ Intimate Portraits That Capture 70s Youth Culture By Joseph Szabo
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These are great pictures. It’s not quite my generation: these were my older cousins or friends’ siblings, who seemed impossibly cool and dangerous and were always doing things like sneaking out at night to go to a forbidden concert.
Everyone seemed to smoke like a chimney in the 70s, I had an office job in 1979, where at least eighty percent of the office smoked. I would come back from lunch and the smoke would be hanging the air so thick you could cut it with a knife. By 1982 the culture had changed, smoking was prohibited in the office, I’d given up smoking too by then …. thankfully to never take up the habit again.
Damn America, you got fat…
WTH? B&W? It’s not the 50’s!
B/w photos are awesome for showing definition. My sister is a photog and she still shoots in b/w. She used to develop her own film before digitals got so good.
Hell yeah, Tri-X Pan all the way (my favorite monochrome 35mm film)!