These evocative snapshots of London were taken by Swedish tourist Mats Örn in 1971 and 1977. They reveal what the capital city looked like in this bygone era, which is well known for being a time of cultural and political change – especially due to high inflation levels, IRA bomb threats, widespread trade union strikesContinue reading “Vintage Photos of London in the 1970s”
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A Look at Girls’ College Dorm Rooms in the Seventies
From Aretha, Peanuts, Playboy, Woodstock, Paul Newman and Burt Reynolds posters to floral bed linens, these pictures, collected from dated yearbooks and found photographs, offer a look inside girls’ university dorm rooms and female student apartments around the seventies. As time capsules, these images are undoubtedly some very interesting gems, they also are a treasureContinue reading “A Look at Girls’ College Dorm Rooms in the Seventies”
Space Age: Egg & Ball Chairs of the 1960s and 1970s
The race for the conquest of space had a great impact on people in the mid-1960s and thus also on fashion and design. The question of how one wanted to live in the future brought forth futuristic designs and manifested itself through geometric shapes. With the Sixties Revival at the end of the 20th centuryContinue reading “Space Age: Egg & Ball Chairs of the 1960s and 1970s”
Fascinating Vintage Photos Capture Everyday Life in Chicago in the 1970s
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the third-most populous in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. With a population of 2,746,388 in the 2020 census, it is also the most populous city in the Midwest. As the seat of Cook County, the second-most populousContinue reading “Fascinating Vintage Photos Capture Everyday Life in Chicago in the 1970s”
Incredible Vintage Photos of Amsterdam’s People in the 1960s and 1970s
Eduard van der Elsken (1925–1990) was a Dutch photographer and filmmaker. His imagery provides quotidian, intimate and autobiographic perspectives on the European zeitgeist spanning the period of the Second World War into the nineteen-seventies in the realms of love, sex, art, music (particularly jazz), and alternative culture. He described his camera as “infatuated,” and said:Continue reading “Incredible Vintage Photos of Amsterdam’s People in the 1960s and 1970s”
35 Fabulous Photos of Ewa Aulin in the 1960s and 1970s
Born 1950 in Landskrona, Swedish actress Ewa Aulin won the title of Miss Teen Sweden in 1965 at age 15, and earned the title of Miss Teen International 1966. In 1967, at age 16, she made her feature-film debut with a supporting role in the comedy Don Giovanni in Sicilia (Don Juan in Sicily), basedContinue reading “35 Fabulous Photos of Ewa Aulin in the 1960s and 1970s”
30 Haunting Photographic Self-Portraits by Francesca Woodman From the 1970s
Francesca Woodman (April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981) is best known for photographing herself. But her pictures are not self-portraits in the traditional sense. She is often nude or semi-nude and usually seen half hidden or obscured – sometimes by furniture, sometimes by slow exposures that blur her figure into a ghostly presence. TheseContinue reading “30 Haunting Photographic Self-Portraits by Francesca Woodman From the 1970s”
30 Vintage Photos of Catherine Deneuve Smoking Cigarettes
The French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo spent almost an entire film – the 1960s classic À Bout du Souffle (Breathless) – with a Gauloise dangling from his lips. Audrey Tautou portrayed the designer Coco Chanel pinning haute couture dresses while smoking. Jacques Tati was rarely without his pipe and Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, GérardContinue reading “30 Vintage Photos of Catherine Deneuve Smoking Cigarettes”
Life in America in the 1970s and 1980s
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43 Fantastic Photos of New York City in the 1970s
Reeling from a decade of social turmoil, New York in the 1970s fell into a deep tailspin provoked by the flight of the middle class to the suburbs and a nationwide economic recession that hit New York’s industrial sector especially hard. Combined with substantial cuts in law enforcement and citywide unemployment topping ten percent, crimeContinue reading “43 Fantastic Photos of New York City in the 1970s”
