[Leica] IMG:Sequence from new 1960's album

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Alan Magayne-Roshak SHOWED:
Subject: [Leica] IMG:Sequence from new 1960's album

Hi Alan,
Apart from the interesting images you've posted. I have to say I love/enjoy 
looking at the photography of others from these times because they were some 
of the more formidable years of mine. So I find them more interesting 
because I see the "people of the time" dressed in similar clothing, hair 
cuts and many other aspects of my life not seen today.

One thing for sure, you once again point up the fact that we photographers, 
"ALL OF US!" Are the recorders of the times and lives within our country, 
whichever country it is. Whether one thinks along these lines or not during 
their picture taking moments, but it is true. Today everything happening the 
world over is so documented the archivists of the future will be overwhelmed 
with images! Maybe?   WHY?

Well from our younger times there are negatives & slides still to be found, 
a solid property of something tangible remaining. Where as from the recent 
past when digital began, the tangibles are only electronic bits and pieces 
as I understand, can disappear on their own. Or be deleted by the millions 
of frames without thought to the future. So the archivists a hundred or a 
thousand years down the line may well have little, if anything from our 
turbulent times of today.

Thank you for posting the past times as it allows some of us to "feel the 
way it was!" Once again, not just see a reproduction in a long lost book.
cheers,
ted


> I've long wanted to scan these, and finally got around to it.
>
> My friend Tom and I drove to Chicago in 1968 (I think August) to visit the 
> big camera stores, and while there noticed  activity on the south end of 
> LaSalle Street:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/Nixon_1_AMR.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/Nixon_2_AMR.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/Nixon_3_AMR.jpg.html>
>
> Turned out to be Richard Nixon's presidential election campaign parade:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/Nixon_4_AMR.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/Nixon_5_AMR.jpg.html>
>
> Looking behind me, I took my favorite shot of the bunch:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/Nixon_6_AMR.jpg.html>
>
> I hope these might be interesting to view.
>
> Alan