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Post by surfer5 on Jan 28, 2008 14:10:41 GMT -5
i found this when i was looking at "This Is England" today. www.pymca-library.com/index2.pgiIf you go to the second "Categories" section, there is a category for skinheads. click on it and it gives you like 200+ photos (mostly B&W) of skins back in the 80s. there are a lot of "saluting" but there are also a fair number of ska show skins and stuff. kinda cool. |
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Post by sharpie marker on Jan 28, 2008 14:27:35 GMT -5
A lot of those are by Gavin Watson. He was just another skinhead kid with a camera back then, but he took most of what we think of today as the iconic skin pictures.
Where'd you find that link?
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Post by surfer5 on Jan 28, 2008 14:43:41 GMT -5
if you go to the movie page for this is england (http://www.thisisenglandmovie.co.uk) there is a section called "Skinhead 80s" that has a history of skins. To the right of that, there is a polaroid looking photo that says "Click Here For Original Skinhead Photography". I did and, to the right handside of the photos, they provide the source of the images and the link (they were all from the PYMCA gallery and linked to http://www.pymca.com).
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Post by sharpie marker on Jan 28, 2008 15:29:03 GMT -5
Gotchya. Cool stuff. There are a couple of excellent galleries around, but like I said, it tends to be a lot of the same pics from Watson. If you scroll down to the bottom at www.oxbloodoi.com/ you can find a couple good galleries, too. |
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Post by jessica on Jan 28, 2008 22:57:32 GMT -5
gavin watson is pretty cool, I talk to him on myspace sometimes and yes he takes really good photos
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Post by debster on Jan 29, 2008 10:22:27 GMT -5
god, some of those pics are just awesome. wonder how many of those kids grew up true to the roots?
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Post by surfer5 on Jan 29, 2008 11:45:07 GMT -5
its funny. i look at today's pictures of skins or whatever and they dont seem to capture that same essence. those old b&w are amazing. i want to take photos like that.
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Post by sharpie marker on Jan 29, 2008 12:01:54 GMT -5
Get a cheap camera and some black and white film. Seriously, everything looks artsier in b&w. When I'm bored, I like to search for skinhead pics on flickr.com - a lot of just random assholes, but there are some cool band and crew shots, too. For example, this right here is a pic I just turned up on flickr of Gavin Watson himself (the one with the hat). |
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Post by jessica on Jan 29, 2008 14:53:31 GMT -5
[shadow=red,left,300]i agree b&w photos always look good [/shadow]
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