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Photographic Images from 1960-70s

 

Tom and Nance Exhibet

Two new exhibits in process, here are some thumbnails and you can watch them as they grow. When the exhibet is finished the larger images will be uploaded.

Country Places

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People thumbnails

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Places thumbnails

D uring the late 1960s and early 1970s I had a couple of cameras, some Tri-x , an enlarger, sometimes even a darkroom plus someone who believed in me and I made some photographic images. These tended to be very personal images of people I knew and places I went, more like snap shots, Often this period is presented as time when some people—hippies and protestors—were doing drugs and being politically extreme.

But I think there was something happening to many if not most middle class young people andit was not just about drugs or extreme politics. It seemed to me that there were some social forces at work pushing and bending the structure of society, not the usual social forces often commented on such as anit-war or civil rights, but more like McLuhan was writing about, hot media to cool media, print culture to electronic global vilage, individualism to global village.

Most of us were wondering about life, trying new things, searching for some meaning in our own personal way. Political or social beliefs did not matter, there were no guides for most of us and we ventured off into unknown places often making a new trail that lead to a dead end. I think some of these images show that.

I have also included a few later images.

These images are in two groups, people and places and you can access using the links in the right sidebar.

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