New York in the 70s is a personal collection of photographs documenting an exciting chapter in New York's history-and a remarkable body of work produced by photographer Allan Tannenbaum while he was a photo editor of the SoHo Weekly News in Manhattan.
The photographs encompass many aspects of New York life while capturing the heady exuberance of the era-from SoHo and the art world to the city’s politics and society. By photographing everything from street gangs to disco divas, from homeless to Hollywood stars, Tannenbaum had assembled a personal diary of his journey as a photojournalist and raconteur through a strange and exotic era of New York life.
The photographs encompass many aspects of New York life while capturing the heady exuberance of the era-from SoHo and the art world to the city’s politics and society. By photographing everything from street gangs to disco divas, from homeless to Hollywood stars, Tannenbaum had assembled a personal diary of his journey as a photojournalist and raconteur through a strange and exotic era of New York life.
Grace Slick and The Jefferson Starship perform in Central Park. |
Jimmy Carter Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan and Warren Beatty at the 1976 Democratic Convention. |
Terence Galagher tends the Bellevue Hospital Mortuary. |
A member of the Chingalings Motorcycle Club pushes another biker at the entrance to their rent-free city-owned clubhouse in the South Bronx. |
Sid Vicious in a body bag. |
Truman Capote at the bar with a friend at Studio 54 in 1977. |
Long-abandoned Pier 48 being used by gay men as a rendezvous for casual sex. |
A boy jumps off a jungle gym on to a mattress in a vacant lot in the Lower East Side. |
The boxer Snooks at Gleason's Gym reads about Nixon and Watergate. |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis campaigning for Ted Kennedy in Astoria, Queens (February 2nd, 1980). |
Stripper Candy Love is arrested for going topless in front of City Hall in a one-person protest. |
Antidraft demonstrators holding a sit-in at the General Post Office do not deter a man in shorts from sending his post. |
Joan Baez at the War is Over Rally in Central Park, May 1975. |
Marijuana Smoke-In and March from Central Park to Washington Square. Man in Richard Nixon mask smokes a joint after taking his pants off. |
The "body" of King Kong lies in the WTC plaza after falling from the top of the building. |
Country music star Dolly Parton hugs rock star Mick Jagger backstage after her Bottom Line concert. 5/14/77. |
Times Square Hooker waiting on the street. |
Blondie cooking at home. |
Residents of Chinatown celebrate the year of the Tiger with a dragon and fireworks. |
Transit Authority K-9 Police use German Shepherds on the subway to deter crime. |
Russian, really? Jesus....
ReplyDeleteMany of these pictures look like the Hermosa Beach strand in the LA South Bay (not SF)...
ReplyDeleteNone of these are San Francisco.
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