Steve Schapiro :: Freedom Now, Canton, Ohio, 1964. Gelatin silver print; printed later / via
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Tag: 1960s
The famous high kick! at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in 1964, the Rockettes (in teensy onesies) perform in front of thousands of bundled-up onlookers. From NBC/NBCU. Photo Bank/Getty Images. / src: Vanity Fair
Lee Friedlander :: Washington State, 1967; from Subscription Series No. 5 (TBW Books). Image courtesy of the artist and TBW Books / src: aperturefnd
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Robert Williams* :: Man reading newspaper on the banks of the Mississippi River, Memphis, TN. while a barge** is passing by. Taken in August 7, 1961 and according to the watch, at 3:10 p.m.
Headline: ‘Soviet Alive, Well in 17th Orbit’ (The Soviet is
Gherman
Titov,
an air force pilot and cosmonaut
chosen to
fly the Vostok 2 in 1961) / more info and source: forensic genealogy
*
R. Williams was a staff photographer for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.
**
The barge is carrying the first Saturn V rocket engine, SA-1, used to launch Apollo 4.
un regard oblique 