#60s photography

Martin Luther King, Jr. showboating in a pool match with local civil rights leader Al Raby. Chicago, 1966.

realityayslum:

John Gutmann - Nun and Musselman’s Cigarette, MoMA, New York, 1968.

retronewyork:

Pedestrians waiting to cross 50th Street, in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Taken in 1960. Photo by Leonard Mccombe

fishstickmonkey:

Stephen Salmieri (American, born 1945). “Coney Island,” 1969. Gelatin silver photograph Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Edward Klein, 82.201.32. © Stephen Salmieri

‘Physics’, “Prattonia”, Pratt Institute, 1965

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I’m getting serious “we’re the American Kraftwerk’ from this picture of the Physics department at Pratt from the 60s. 

“Prattonia”, Pratt Institute of New York, 1967

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Some selections from the 1967 yearbook of the Pratt Institute of New York. Some of these images could be promotional material for bands or even covers for some post-rock albums. That ‘Mathematics’ image looks like a band that might orbit They Might Be Giants. Hell, the ‘Chemical’ and ‘Mechanical’ engineering photos could be a Ska bands.