Atlanta within the Nineteen Seventies was means stranger than we bear in mind.
The historic South pushed up against a brand new Age; hippies gathered in Piedmont Park and homosexual pride marchers ventured to Peachtree road. A political revolution introduced African american citizens into energy whereas an economic sea change brought cash to the entire vicinity.
Boyd Lewis, once described because the "white boy with the black press," stayed busy documenting the upstart city, as a reporter and photographer with the Atlanta Voice and the Atlanta Inquirer and as an editor, reporter, anchor and producer with public radio station WABE.
An antiwar protestor at the Georgia State Capitol is nabbed during this 1971 image. Working for the option press, photographer and reporter Boyd Lewis caught the transforming into tension between the counter-way of life and the mainstream. picture: Boyd Lewis
Lewis lately donated 15,000 photos to the Atlanta background core, including to a gift he made in 1985, bringing the total to 25,000 images, plus some audio tapes and different objects. The charming exhibit, "Flashback: Atlanta in the 70s, The images of Boyd Lewis," presently displaying on the Margaret Mitchell apartment in Midtown, is drawn from this archive.
The exhibit comprises 60 photographs and three movies and should be on display until subsequent January. you can see a greater extensive gallery of the photographs here.
among the traditional pictures that Lewis captured:
Atlanta photographer Boyd Lewis, now transplanted to California, turned into a reporter and photographer all through Atlanta's tumultuous Seventies, working for The Atlanta Inquirer, The Atlanta Voice, The outstanding Speckled bird and different businesses. image: staff/AJC
•A marcelled Maynard Jackson at his complicated inaugural, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performing at the back of him.
•Krishna focus devotees, clad in dhotis and high-exact communicate sneakers, joyfully banging their two-headed drums in Piedmont Park.
•a wonderful gay pride cohort, awash in feathers and parasols, waving from the home windows, roof, mattress and hood of a blue pickup truck.
In 1972 Atlanta's gay pride parade changed into in its infancy, and by way of some estimates drew 300 people.Years later the parade would expand to dominate an entire weekend of actions, and draw lots. picture: Boyd Lewis
In 1997 Boyd moved to la to train high faculty and center college. Now retired, Lewis mentioned he discovered instructing as lucrative as journalism. "You'd get the fulfillment and remarks each day you walked into the classroom."
Lewis' curiosity turned into tireless, and the outcomes of his watchfulness is this colorful list. "there were more suitable photographers than I, extra evocative audio artists and God knows, more story-telling writers," Lewis stated recently. "however i will be able to't believe of any individual else who did it all."
"Flashback: Atlanta in the 70s, The photography of Boyd Lewis," at the Margaret Mitchell condominium, through Jan. sixteen, 2017; 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, noon-5:30 p.m. Sundays; $13 adults, $10 seniors and students; $8.50 children; free for Atlanta historical past core contributors and children under 4; 979 Crescent Ave., MargaretMitchellHouse.com.
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