http://2point8.whileseated.org/2008/02/14/70s-street/ A wide-open view of the practice of street photography by Michael David Murphy, While Seated. Mon, 21 May 2012 12:32:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://2point8.whileseated.org/2008/02/14/70s-street/comment-page-1/#comment-48811 william Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:32:24 +0000 http://2point8.whileseated.org/2008/02/14/70s-street/#comment-48811 I enjoyed the photographs very much. It is not just that the photographs are old but that they capture the aesthetic zeitgeist of the time. I have lost all my negatives from that time period, but I have scanned my remaining tattered and beaten proofsheets to yeild some zeros and ones--cyberimages-- that the nice people over at F Blog are showing (http://gruppof.blogspot.com/search/label/William%20Schmidt%20Archives%201975). Mr. Johnson's photos show the more ragged America before cities became mini-theme parks, before everyone looked like movie stars. For those who weren't there and then, perhaps you will have to go to Belarus or Eastern Europe to find something similar. Good job and thanks. I enjoyed the photographs very much. It is not just that the photographs are old but that they capture the aesthetic zeitgeist of the time. I have lost all my negatives from that time period, but I have scanned my remaining tattered and beaten proofsheets to yeild some zeros and ones–cyberimages– that the nice people over at F Blog are showing
(http://gruppof.blogspot.com/search/label/William%20Schmidt%20Archives%201975).
Mr. Johnson’s photos show the more ragged America before cities became mini-theme parks, before everyone looked like movie stars. For those who weren’t there and then, perhaps you will have to go to Belarus or Eastern Europe to find something similar. Good job and thanks.

]]> http://2point8.whileseated.org/2008/02/14/70s-street/comment-page-1/#comment-48417 Michael Cassidy Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:59:10 +0000 http://2point8.whileseated.org/2008/02/14/70s-street/#comment-48417 We all looked like the guy in the bottom photograph in the '70's. The top picture with the dogs is nice; friedlander-ish. We all looked like the guy in the bottom photograph in the ’70’s. The top picture with the dogs is nice; friedlander-ish.

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