Inspirational Imagery: 70's

Showing posts with label 70's. Show all posts

David Armstrong

David Armstrong is a New York-based photographer. The images below are from his late 70's-early 80's color series (with a book of the same name) called Night & Day.

In addition to his fine art photography, he has shot commercial photography for Zegna, Rene Lezard, Kenneth Cole, Burburry, Puma, and Barbara Bui.

Claudia on Bench at Dusk, Asbury Park, Fall 1979

(title missing)

Danny Rosen, Mudd Club, 1979

French Chris and Bruce, Truro, 1979

Patti Astor (title missing)

Luc and Lisa, New Years Eve, 1979

Miscellaneous Babes

Beverly Johnson

Naomi Campbell as featured on the cover of Time in the "Totem Pole" Dress from Isaac Mizrahi's Fall 1991 collection.

Lara Stone by Peter Lindbergh, Vogue China, January 2012

Chris Roer by Albert Elgort, US Vogue, August 1975

Gisele Zelauy for Moschino, est. late 80's

Nedege du Bospertus in Valention, est. early 90's

Anjelica Huston for Dior Cosmetics, 1973. Shot by Sarah Moon

Manel Armengol, New York 1976-1978

Mac-Cars, NYC 1978

A Sunday Morning, NYC 1978

Red Car, NYC 1978

Reflex in Prince St., NYC 1978

Yellows, from the MoMA, NYC 1977

Manel Armengol is a Barcelona-based photojournalist. He has thousands of shots on Flickr from the 70's on that are well worth viewing. I chose these of late-70's New York, because of their cool graphic compositions and striking bold color. This particular collection reminds me a little of Saul Leiter.

All of the photos are © Manel Armengol

NYC Snapshots, 1978

These photos are part of a collection by Alex Razbash, who has many cool shots from around the world. It's really interesting to see very general scenes of a very different New York; familiar but everything looks much shabbier. Maybe I should take more photos of my general surroundings so that I don't forget how things used to be.

West Side Highway in Tribeca, facing South

42nd St

Times Square

Delancey St facing East

42nd St

48th and Broadway

Alan Parsons Project

I will admit that I'm not so familiar with the Alan Parsons Project, and not entirely sure whether I would be a fan or not. They've always reminded me of Pink Floyd for some reason; I later came to find out that it's because Alan Parsons engineered Atom Heart Mother and Dark Side of the Moon.

In a roundabout way, I found myself casually chatting about late 70's/early 80's music with an enthusiast of the era. Their name came up, and I recalled some funky cartoon video they had. It led me to do some research on them, where I turned up a couple bits of cool album art.

Unfortunately they generally have fugly typography to go with it!

Artwork from the album, Eve; 1979

I, Robot; 1977

Ammonia Avenue; 1984

Gaudi; 1986

James Chance

I'm on a James Chance kick lately. He's one of the coolest sax-playing No-Wave heroes of late 70's NYC (Yes, there are actually more than one.) He was in Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Contortions, and James White and the Blacks. His music is aggressive, funky disco-punk mixed with free form jazz. YES!

Brian Eno likes it.

With the late Anya Phillips who was his girlfriend, manager, and muse. She's a super cool No-Wave hero too.
She died too early in life, in 1981 of cancer.