MANFA, Make America Nineteen Fifties Again

Yeah, I have to admit, it was a great time if you were white.

Did you read any of the comments?

If you were trying to push a MAGA agenda, you have come to the wrong place.

Having said that, the shot with the three young ladies and the kayaks was simply outstanding.
 
@RIch, I thought you were drastically over-reacting. Then I read some of the comments. Euch.

Kodachrome is nice, they did make good guitars and jeans but I'm glad my son is growing up in the present.
 
I, for one, am glad we are not stuck in the 1950s!

However, I think the "golden age" for cameras was between the mid 1960s and early 1980s, when film was slow(er) and lenses were designed to do the best with the available film.

I think the real sweet spot was maybe 10-15 years ago, using the combination of 1970s glass and early 2000s film, which was at a peak and had a good selection.
 
Rick Waldroup said:
Yeah, I have to admit, it was a great time if you were white.

Did you read any of the comments?

If you were trying to push a MAGA agenda, you have come to the wrong place.

Having said that, the shot with the three young ladies and the kayaks was simply outstanding.
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I am Canadian, In the USA I would not be considered " white".. if that means anything.

I got no MAGA agenda or MAGMA or LAVA agenda etc.:)

I just looked at the photos and noticed that some have great OOF areas and vivid colours and I thought like minded RFF members would enjoy seeing them.
 
I will take the present and celebrate diversity. And I remember (somewhat) the 1950's being born in 1952. I loved hiding under the desk in first grade to practice for an atomic war.
 
xayraa33 said:
I am Canadian, In the USA I would not be considered " white".. if that means anything.

I got no MAGA agenda or MAGMA or LAVA agenda etc.:)

I just looked at the photos and noticed that some have great OOF areas and vivid colours and I thought like minded RFF members would enjoy seeing them.
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Then, I apologize for my rant. The photos were lovely to look at, but I still stand by what I said about that era.

It was a wonderful time if you were white. I was born in '54 and remember some of that time and especially heading into the early 1960's when there were still plenty of "Colored Only" restrooms and water fountains here in Texas.
 
I think I went to high school with the guy with the hair. dmr is right it was really work to be a photographer then. Although, in 1962 I didn't think anything of shooting a roll of Kodachrome. Now I consider every shot.
 
Rick Waldroup said:
Then, I apologize for my rant. The photos were lovely to look at, but I still stand by what I said about that era.

It was a wonderful time if you were white. I was born in '54 and remember some of that time and especially heading into the early 1960's when there were still plenty of "Colored Only" restrooms and water fountains here in Texas.
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I am visual, hence why I always gravitated to sketching, oil painting and of course photography, cameras, film development and wet darkroom print making.

I did not create the past and I am sure there was good and bad in every decade just like there is now in every place on this place we call earth.

Everyone it seems has turned into a self righteous social justice warrior at the drop of a hat. Even just showing innocent photos of the past has now got to turn into a black-hat vs white-hat slug-fest .

The social engineering manipulators have done a great job of divide and conquer. Few can actually see the forest for the trees.
No one has a sense of humour any more and everything is now a big deal.

I just enjoy looking at photographs, whether they were taken in now or the 1990s or the 19th century or the 1950s, simple as that .

The medium is the message .
 
Nostalgia is a disease. Most of us are sufferers to some extent.

You can fight it or embrace it to suit your needs, psychological or political.

Chris
 
Michael Markey said:
Used Kodachrome throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s .
Mostly 64 ,occasionally 25 and if feeling adventurous 200 :)
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I am right there with you. I shot Kodachrome the same way and I remember when they produced the 200 and I was like, WOW, this is awesome. :cool: I only shot a few rolls of the 200, but it was really nice stuff.
 
Michael Markey said:
Used Kodachrome throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s .
Mostly 64 ,occasionally 25 and if feeling adventurous 200 :)
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I used Kodachrome 25 and 64 in the 1970s and even some 160 ASA Ektachrome.

I even used GAF 500 slide film in the 70s, but last time I checked those slides they have completely faded:mad:, unlike the Kodachromes.
 
Very nice.

I gotta admit....they don't make nostalgia like they used to. :^)

And on that subject here is a superb video of Don Draper from "Madmen" talking about nostalgia and illustrating it perfectly with some of his own photos. (Seems they had nostalgia even back then in the 1950's - at least according to 2010 TV series)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus
 
I preferred the 60's myself. Maybe because I was 7 in 1959! Shoot, the 60's are still here.....like wow, far out and right on brother.
 
These are plastic, happy, monotone photos...family photos, curated and nostalgic, but not ideally living photography.

The comments are the most educative.
 
It still an interesting time regardless of the warts and all..

The 1950s lasted from 1946 to November 22 1963 in the USA, a tumultuous but yet an interesting time period, envied and embellish beyond reality by other nations in the passing time.

You can cherry pick anything that is considered "Bad" in any decade and for any nation but in the end it is always going to be an "opinion and a grab-bag" and like I mentioned before, it is always a case of a mix of good, bad and majority mundane-ness.

To me interesting photos transcend politics or even time-eras or slogans .
Spoofing a current popular abbreviation just makes it less serious and just makes it just a blip in a timeline that one should not get too worked up about, if they have eyes to see and a gut feeling that they are being played in the divide and conquer game.

I enjoy looking at images without putting too much of myself in them or getting too emotional, and they could be photos inside of one of my family photos albums or my collection of 1871 Sepia toned photo images of the Paris Commune or photos of London UK of the swinging groovy 1960s or images on our RFF gallery or on Flickr.
They are equally interesting images on many levels, regardless of what personal emotional baggage one wants to attach to them.

People have now forgotten to see humour in life and have forgotten to see a photo as a photo, which is not the same as reality.
 
As someone born in 1970, I can't rightfully say I feel nostalgic for the '50s. But I do feel drawn to the things from that era, for sure. Most of my cameras are from then! That said, I would never want our world today to be like then. The times have changed for the better. We've come a long way.
 
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