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dudes on bikes

Friday 7 January, 2011 / Vintage / Comments { 13 }

i totally fall for the stereotype of a certain type of man on a motorbike (and i’m talking a certain kind of motorbike, too) denim, leather, boots, scruffy facial hair - i mean really. badass.

all images courtesy of the always wonderful the selvedge yard. if you wish to peruse more motorbikes and the cool dudes who ride them, and other awesome vintage stories & imagery – do pay it a visit.

oh, this pic isn’t from TSY – but i had to include it, as it was the only good part of that shitty movie and made me go ooooooh for brad like i was 12 years old again.

i would also like to petition that don draper appears on a motorbike at some point in mad men season 5. yes?

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pierre wayser

Tuesday 4 January, 2011 / Vintage / Comments { 2 }

a collection of photographs from the mid seventies by pierre wayser

all photographs by pierre wayser

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Les Demoiselles D’Hamilton

Tuesday 14 December, 2010 / Vintage / Comments { 5 }

david hamilton is a british photographer best known for his dreamy photographs of young women. much of his work has been criticised for being ‘pornographic’ and is particularly controversial because the women in his photographs are seemingly rather young. i wouldn’t say his work is any more risque than stuff coming from terry richardson or many modern day photographers (and it’s far more subtle for that matter) … but then again, i’m not the porno police.

he actually has a background in fashion, having worked as a graphic designer at french elle in the fifties and later became the art director of printemps in paris. if you ever happen to come across one of his books in some dusty second hand shop or market somewhere i’d encourage you to buy it, they seem to be pretty popular on ebay. before you sell it though you might consider giving it to me as i find his work to be exceedingly beautiful.

these images are from one of his books entitled les demoiselles d’hamilton (1973) - you may scan through the book here and see all the images here. fair warning: lots of nudity.

images courtesy of targophoto

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seventies avengeance

Thursday 2 December, 2010 / Fashion / Comments { 1 }

you may remember these photographs garance doré took of ondine azoulay

now we’ve been treated to more of ondine’s great style over at all the pretty birds

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twen magazine

Thursday 11 November, 2010 / Vintage / Comments { 3 }

twen was german youth magazine, which appeared monthly from 1959 to 1971 . design wise just an absolute treat. this spread is from collectible’s flickr stream.

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peggy lipton

Wednesday 3 November, 2010 / Vintage / Comments { 2 }

peggy lipton, 1970. what a beaut. now you know where rashida jones gets it from.

all images from life mag, inspired by tomboy style (a treasure)

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roller disco

Wednesday 27 October, 2010 / Vintage / Comments { 8 }

i cannot and have never been able to skate. be it on ice or with rollerskates or… rollerblades *cringe* i am so bad at it in fact that i have actually had skating dreams – much like normal people might have flying dreams. i’ve had flying dreams too, sure, but the skating dreams are far more exciting. whizzing past people in the street, using it as my main form of transport – these are all things i would love to be able to do.

right now i’m going through a bit of a disco obsession (more on that later) and nothing goes with disco quite like rollerskating. MAN ALIVE. check out swayze in this little number…

right? right. i would have liked to see john travolta partaking in a bit of roller action. other celebs did too though, check out dustin hoffman, andy warhol and cher below

as well as hef rolling with one of his ladies (nice denim suit)

it was a big enough deal that there was a magazine dedicated to it. bring back roller disco.

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seventies vogue

Thursday 21 October, 2010 / Vintage / Comments { 2 }

i would have been very happy living in the seventies, i’ve decided. vogue scans from youthquakers

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spot the innuendos

Monday 23 August, 2010 / Vintage / Comments { 1 }

these look like they’ve been taken out of an opening scene for a cheesy porno catalogue. also, notice the toilet seat frame hanging on the wall! all from retro space.

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nick dewolf photo archive

Wednesday 4 August, 2010 / Vintage / Comments { 4 }

i’ve been meaning to tackle this topic for a while, as the nick dewolf photo archive is the largest collection of vintage photos i’ve ever seen (so far closing in on almost 40,000 photos) – so i’m finding it pretty difficult trying to pick my favs to show you! the story behind the archive is presented by steve lundeen, who is nick de wolf’s son-in-law:

as a photographer, nick was ever ready and ever present, leaving behind many thousands of pre-digital images, dating well back into the 1950′s. he carried a camera with him at all times, usually a family of cameras. if you knew nick, you got used to this…eventually, he’d be pointing his camera at you. i am working to post nick’s images in their original sets as they are scanned and processed, somewhere in the order of 20-50 images a day. for those wondering “how much longer can this possibly go on?”, i can only answer, “the mountain is high, the journey is long.”

what an absolutely great story, it makes you realise that you simply have to carry your camera with you all the time – imagine the pictures you’d be able to show your kids one day. also this guy was shooting film, which is a thousand times more admin than our handy digital cameras… here are some of my favourites (i love the hippies)