life:
Forty years ago this week, LIFE magazine published an intimate and, for the time, remarkably even-handed article on the mounting problems associated with street gangs in New York and other cities around the country. The piece focused on one gang in particular — the Reapers in the South Bronx — and featured a series of powerful color pictures by a young photographer named John Shearer.
Shearer, only the second African-American staff photographer ever hired by LIFE — after Shearer’s mentor and friend, the great Gordon Parks — was uniquely qualified, among the magazine’s not terribly diverse stable of shooters, to capture the Reapers’ days and nights. But even he had trouble penetrating the gang’s wall of suspicion.
Read more here on LIFE.com.
Untitled, Feature#47
Photography by Wessel Baarda
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(Source: spleenmagazine, via jpeoplemagazine)
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East Link Angel Gun
If you like the Misfits have a go at Women In Prison from Austin.
EAST LINK - CASSETTE (CREEP DREAMS)
je n’écrirais pas un mot de plus sur cette K7 d’East Link, déjà ils sont australiens et vous savez en plus tout le bien que l’on pense d’eux. juste la cassette est pas évidente à trouver.
East Link - S/t cs (Creep Dreams Records)
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