Tight Slacks and Snug Evening Gowns Show the Range of Costumes Worn, 1961
Captured here: Tight slacks and snug evening gowns show the range of costumes worn by twisters in 1961. David McLane/New York Daily News. The scene dates to 1961, a detail that changes how you read every face and object in the frame.
The 1960s moved fast: the space race put satellites and then astronauts overhead, television replaced print as the main source of news, and social change swept through music, fashion, and politics. Photojournalism was at its peak, with picture magazines and newspapers employing armies of photographers.
Pictures of ordinary life are some of the most valuable historical documents we have. Grand events were always going to be recorded, but a normal day — how people worked, dressed, shopped, and passed the time — survives only when someone happened to point a camera at it.
