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Today, when we watch genre-defining concert films like Monterey Pop, Woodstock, Gimme Shelter, or Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, we look upon the audience with nearly as much interest as we do the performers. But Pink Floyd never did things in quite the same way as other rock bands of that era. In […]
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Stephen Salmieri: First Photos of Coney Island, 1967 – 1972

“I used to be a fireball of energy – if I had two or three days a week to spare where I wasn’t on an assignment I was out with my camera in the city. I covered this city like an archeologist.” – Stephen Salmieri, Coney Island Trips, 1967 – 1972     Between 1967 … Continue reading "Stephen Salmieri: First Photos of Coney Island, 1967 – 1972" The post Stephen Salmieri: First Photos of Coney Island, 1967 – 1972 appeared first on Flashbak.

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