"Al has a good relationship played with people," says Martin Barnes, chief curator of the Museum V & A, photographer Al Vandenberg, whose new book, on a good day, represents life on the streets of London in the early 1970 and 1980 " was a very charming personality, was very discreet, and we can say that people who are involved -. it is very difficult to feel streets portraits well, as they now have a lack of confidence or defensive ... it is a very large heat on them. "
Vanden raised near Boston and studied photography with Richard Avedon and Bruce Davidson. Until recently, he was honored for his work on the cover of the Beatles - known album Lonely Hearts Club Band Sergeant Pepper, but after a successful start in the music scene in the 1960s, far away from Vanden commercial photography and focus on silence held in his own portraits street. he died in 2012, but this will be his first photo ~~ POS = TRUNC. "I think it's only in the last five to ten years, that these photos were really and seen correctly estimated," said Barnes.
Photos of the new monograph detect completely different subcultures in London at this time, mods and rockers punks and new romantics, they all have had their own neighborhoods and meeting places. In each image, the subject is looking directly into the camera, usually with a little attitude and a smile. "By using very easy to speak in the pictures," said Barnes. "He optimism of youth loved and Street Freestyle. People are different kinds of things together, and did not have to wear his face." Down to the photographer who see to the beginning of the street - style.
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