Margo Donohue Couldn't Use her Feminine Wiles to Get Out of This One, 1961
Captured here: Mob Moll, 1961: Margo Donohue couldn't use her feminine wiles to get out of this one! The gun moll was fingerprinted by a narcotics squad after she was found carrying a loaded .38 caliber pistol for her accomplice William Matea in 1961. Made in 1961, it is the kind of image that turns a date in a history book into something you can actually see.
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.
Most photography of the period chased celebrities and headlines, which makes surviving images of daily routine all the more precious. This is what the world actually looked like when nobody thought it was worth remembering.
