The Nineteen Seventies

[fdarnell]

At the peak of the gas crisis:

 

[Vics]

1979
London 1979 by Victor Ross, on Flickr

 

[Sparrow]

I can tell the make and model of every car and van in that photo after 35 years ... I wouldn't know half of them in a modern version of that scene, form has followed function I suppose I expect they all have less drag and wind noise than that MGB-GT, a truly awful car in any era.

 

[Sparrow]

... the long dead Layla, named from the song by Deric and the Dominos ... one of the few slides I could recover when we last moved house, mildew got many thousand maybe two hundred cleaned like this one ... only a handful were untouched

So be careful not to store cardboard containers on concert floors no matter how dry they look

Scan-100724-0028 by sparrow rf, on Flickr

 

[Johnmcd]

Nikkormat FTn, Nikkor 50mm f/2, TriX.

Erik.

Nikkor 105mm f/2.5

Great capture Eric. It's like you are the one person who shouldn't be there and they all know it.

 

[kossi008]

Congratulations on the exhibition, Lawrence, great work. Hope it's a success!

And great pictures from everybody else, too, in this thread! I especially like Lynn's shot of the boat and girl.

Unfortunately, although I do remember the Seventies quite vividly, I can't play, because I got my first camera in 1980...

 

[johnno`]

beach life, mid 1970s

The surf boats were all timber construction back then. Now they're carbon fibre and composites.

Great images Lynn, I wish I had all taken more photos in the 70`s ...oh surfmats are back in vogue.

 

[lawrence]

1973 by carter3john, on Flickr

Nice. Reminds me of Bill Owen's book 'Suburbia'.

1973: Weymouth Court, San Ramon, CA by carter3john, on Flickr

And this one reminds me of Eggleston.

 

[Rick Waldroup]

Kathy - Miami Beach - Summer, 1977

 

[Erik van Straten]

Nikkormat FTn, Nikkor 50mm f/2, TriX.

Amsterdam, 1974.

Erik.

Amsterdam, 1971

Paris 1973, Nikkor 24 mm.

 

[Mackinaw]

1972 I believe.

Jim B.

 

[lynnb]

Great images everyone. Lynn, was that KB they were drinking? In a steel can. I remember my dad drinking it along with the old DA in long necks.

Yep, KB.. it was sickly sweet.. <gags at memory>

 

[tomtofa]

These are from the latter half of the '70s - about '76 to '78 or so.

 

[Gregoris]

Nikkormat FTn, Nikkor 50mm f/2, TriX.

Amsterdam, 1974.

Erik.

Amsterdam, 1971

Paris 1973, Nikkor 24 mm.

WOW, your photos are just simply astonishing. Have you got a blog or a flickr, or a gallery with all these? Consider me a fan!

 

[lynnb]

drinking beer outside the local surf club, 1978, Sydney.
OM1 Zuiko 28mm Kodachrome 25

 

[lawrence]

Signs of the Seventies

Signs of the Seventies

Later this month I'm putting on a small show of my photos from the 1970s - lawrenceimpey.com - and would love to see any other photos that somehow reflect that era. Lynn put some excellent Aussie pub photos up a couple of years ago so do click here if you haven't seen them.

Just to say that the exhibition will be shown again in Spain, this time in Santiago de Compostela. The opening is on Tuesday evening so if anyone happens to be in the area, do drop in.

 

[MickH]

Genesis 1974
scan from a print

Selling England by the Pound!

 

[lynnb]

Spain? Congratulations again, Lawrence!

 

[Jay Decker]

Janet
Yellowstone
1976​

 

[lynnb]

chilling out on a bush block, Northern NSW, mid 1970s

OM1 Zuiko 28mm Tri-X D76