Bill Yates - Down at the Sweetheart Rink

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Saw this posted on another forum and wanted to share. Great story and wonderful photos of a time we'll never see again.

 
It is an impressive collection of photographs from a time when photography was not yet viewed with suspicion. The black and white, the use of flash and the square format transport us to that era. For me it is an America that I have only seen in movies.

“This was 1972 and ’73,” Yates says. “You had the Women’s Movement and the Civil Rights movement. You had Vietnam raging. You had the hippies. You had sex, drugs and rock and roll. Music was changing dramatically. All that stuff from California had moved east.”

I found these two excerpts interesting; the whole work is very inspiring.

"When the right photographer with the right eye is in the right place at the right time, the world gets iconic images — perfect expressions of moments in history, as societies or regions move into uncharted territory."

Thanks for the link, appreciated.
 
Saw this posted on another forum and wanted to share. Great story and wonderful photos of a time we'll never see again.

Tremendous work in there.
 
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