Historic Photos

The gardener attends to his duties, 1955.

(in suitable attire i might add)

Michael O'Brien was the first known streaker at a major sporting event when on 20 April 1974, he ran out naked onto the ground of an England vs. France Rugby Union match at Twickenham. The 25-year-old Australian was captured by PC Bruce Perry who covered his genitals with his helmet, before doing the same to O'Brien.  The photograph of O'Brien under arrest became one of the most reproduced photographs of a streaker. O'Brien, long-haired, bearded and naked in front of a crowd is surrounded by the filth as he is arrested. The helmet is on display in the museum at Twickenham (and so is the police hat).

East Germans crossing into West Berlin check out western pornography, the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 10, 1989.

blog.artlyst.com/art-of-resistance/atelier-populaire-posters-for-a-peoples-revolution-part-1/

"Lithography was too slow a process for the artists to produce hundreds if not thousands of copies as quickly as they needed to. So they turned to a technique that was little-known in France at the time, and then used for commercial printing, silk-screening, ‘sérigraphie’. This did not need large machines and most importantly, it could be taught very quickly to the artists and art students occupying the art schools. It was also economical.

Atelier Populaire was imbued with the values of democracy, collective work and equality of all. The artists did not sign their designs. Anybody and everybody could, and did, propose slogans or themes to be used. These were then debated and collective decisions made as to which would be reproduced."

np

I collect them myself- the process itself and the reuse of the screens multiple times I find fascinating.some can laugh at the naivite of the situationists & their sloganeering, but the art they produced was proper street art. IYKWIM.

just the posters- the screens were used/cleaned down with solvents & then reused so many time, the frames themselves may still exist but not in the original '68 formats

This is what a like about this forum*- a discussion and comments- and we have yet to be interrupted by some block headed vulgar fuck with 1 post history saying he has $100,000 to spend on a GWB balloon canvas

*and the fucking swearing obviously

Thought this looked interesting:www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/performing-camera 
18th Feb - 12th June

Serious performance art, portraiture, or just simply posing for the camera? What does is it mean to perform for the camera?
Photography has been used to capture performances since its invention – from the stars of the Victorian stage to the art happenings of the 1960s, and today’s trend for selfies.
With over 50 seminal photographers on display, the exhibition explores the relationship between photography and performance, engaging with serious, provocative and sensational topics, as well as humour, improvisation and irony. It shows how photographs have captured performances by important artists including Yves Klein and Yayoi Kusama, and ground-breaking collaborations between photographers, performers and dancers. It looks at how artists including Francesca Woodman, Erwin Wurm and others have used photography as a stage on which to perform, and how figures from Cindy Sherman and Hannah Wilke to Marcel Duchamp and Samuel Fosso have used photography to explore identity.
From marketing and self-promotion, to the investigation of gender and identity, to experiments with the self-portrait, Performing for the Camera brings together over 500 images shown in series, including vintage prints, large scale works, marketing posters and artists working with Instagram. It is a wide-ranging exploration of how performance artists use photography and how photography is in itself a performance.

And article here: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/31/exposed-photographys-fabulous-fakes
Exposed: photography's fabulous fakes

Looks like Bäst & Insect!

WTF!!!! Is this really how Bungle first appeared. Scary as f***!

Ooof!