Photography involves two main distortions – the simplification into black and white and the seizing of an instant in time. It is this particular mixture of reality and unreality, and the photographer’s power to select, that makes it possible for photography to be an art. Whether it is good art depends on the power and truth of the artist’s statement.
Roger Mayne, Peace News, 1960
Not any more Roger, we just take 800 photos of a single night out and pick the 40 where we look hot, maybe with some amateur photoshopping to fix our meat sweats from too much Glens. Definitely dig the Richmond ninja teens though – could be any festival last summer. Check out more of his work here and try not to get freaked out by the impoverished children and their knee high stockings. I think we’re all glad Patrick Wolf brought that back…
Girls Jiving, Richmond Jazz Festival 1969
Girls, Chatting, Islington 1963
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