A Picture is Worth a Thousand & one Words

[reubenturner]

(Audrey Hepburn in Rottingdean, being Dutch I imagine she liked windmills)

[reubenturner]

I love that mirror image one, who’s it by? Looks like Gary Winogrand maybe?

[walshtron]

Beautiful isn’t it. Ernst Haas, 1952

[Sonny]

The Beloved, 1989

[reubenturner]

© Mitch Epstein - Rosy, Meghraj Cabaret #2 Bombay 1984

[Pulsatio7]

[deepconcentration]

the rick astley’s dad photo is so wholesome

[J_C]

Jenny from The Belle Stars? Steve Strange. Pass.

[padsyms]

Is it the one in Haysi Fantayzee who wasn’t Jeremy Healy?

EDIT: Kate Garner?

[J_C]

I’m not sure. Could be!

Edit. Yes you’re right! Great photo.

[Gavin]

Kate Garner, was also very successful model.

[padsyms]

…and after, photographer, apparently. Impressive career management chops.

[Gavin]

I thought Pauline Black maybe?

[Discophrenia]

First time I’ve seen the sky in weeks

[Pulsatio7]

[howler]

[reubenturner]

Intimate photographs of 1970s East London squatters discovered decades later

[Balearic_Clapton]

That guy in the main photo is Harold Thornton, an Australian artist also known as “Harold The Kangaroo” and the self-proclaimed “Greatest Genius Who Ever Lived”. He died a while back but was a regular face at dance parties in Sydney in the late 80s and early 90s. I went to his home/studio once. He was a delightful impish man who grew a long wiskers from a mole on his chin and sometimes painted with them!

"He was prolific and his art career spanned more than 60 years from traditional portraits and landscapes, to surrealist-type art, and some art commentators classify Harold’s later works to be in the Naive style, however, Erica Kubic-Vegter, a Dutch art historian, has stated that Harold had many styles during his career and has classified his later bright-coloured “psychedelic” works as Magic Realism.

But Harold himself would have rejected any classification of his art and was once quoted as saying ‘…What do I paint: I have many styles, and change to suit the subject. My real painting is psychedelic. I don’t follow the old masters, no, I am one.’. He was an early Australian proponent of using bold, bright colours, and had an influence over artists such as Martin Sharp, who described him as ‘The first of the hippies … and the last of the punks’’"

[Balearic_Clapton]

These photos are all from a book called “93: Punching The Light” by Simon Burstall documenting the second wave rave scene in Sydney.

[Balearic_Clapton]