Vanessa Swann and Baz O’Connell, Bishops Way, 1979 © Joyce Edwards For two years in the 1970s, Joyce Edwards (1925-2024) took pictures of the everyday life inside London squats. After she died in 2003, her friend Derek Smith found the rolls of film. He realised that many of the people in Joyce’s photos were still living on the same streets in East London close to Victoria Park. Smith contacted animator and filmmaker Pete Bishop, a housing co-op member since 1978. Working with the arts charity Four Corners, they secured National Lottery Heritage Fund support for an oral history project, a film, and an exhibition.   John, painter, Haverstock Hill squat, 1979 © Joyce Edwards Joyce began taking pictures in her own North London property on Haverstock Hill that runs from Hampstead to Chalk Farm in Camden, capturing the tenants that included British actor and director Henry Woolf and Polish actor Vladek Sheybal (From Russia with Love, Smiley’s People). She then went to east London, towards Bethnal Green, where three streets known as ‘The Triangle’ had been left empty after plans for a major motorway – one of the roads that would have destroyed London – were abandoned.   Billy Cowden Joy Rigard and Jamie at 156 Sewardstone Road in 1978 © Joyce Edwards The original Triangle squatters went on to form the Grand Union Housing Co-operative, persuading the Greater London Council to allow them to restore their homes and purchase the freeholds of 63 properties in 1981. The community continues today.   103 Bishops Way 1978, Co-op headquarters © Joyce Edwards  “The co-op survives because of the involvement of the members, because we are fully mutual and, crucially, because our 1981 constitution includes a no right to buy clause.” – Pete Bishop   Beverly Spacie, Sewardstone Road, The Triangle, 1977 © Joyce Edwards Harold the Kangaroo, painter, with his dog Captain Beefheart, Sewardstone Road 1978 © Joyce Edwards Gary Chamberlin, Beverly Spacie and Howard Dillon, 103 Bishops Way, 1977 © Joyce Edwards Anthony and Andrew Minion, Albany Street squat, 1980 © Joyce Edwards Tosh Parker, Sewardstone Road, 1977 © Joyce Edwards Sue, back of Sewardstone Road, 1977 © Joyce Edwards Father and son at 66 The Bishops Avenue squat, c.1976 © Joyce Edwards Shirley Robbins, 103 Bishops Way, 1977 © Joyce Edwards Joyce Edwards, self-portrait in bedroom, c.1980 © Joyce Edwards   Joyce Edwards: A Story of Squatters opens at Four Corners in Bethnal Green on Friday 13 February and runs until Saturday 20 March. The post Photographs of 1970s East London Squatters Found After 50 Years appeared first on Flashbak.

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“Fashion is as vital and as interesting today as ever. I know what people with a more formal attitude mean when they say they’re horrified by what they see on the street. But fashion is doing its job. It’s mirroring exactly our times.” – Bill Cunningham     Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) made it look easy. The photographer’s candid pictures populated two long-running (1978 – 2016) New York Times features: On the Street, a look at New York street style; and Evening Hours, a portraits of society figures at New York philanthropic fund-raisers. And from 1982 to 1990, Cunningham worked for Details magazine.   DETAILS Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2, 1982, Bill Cunningham’s “Wedding Fantasies” Founded by Annie Flanders (10 June 1939 – 10 March 2022) Details began as an independent downtown fashion and life-style magazine that quickly expanded nationally, leading to its sale to Condé Nast in 1990. Cunningham was part of the original Details team that started with the first issue in October 1982, and eventually came to dominate issues in the late 1980s with one-hundred-plus page spreads covering fashion shows in New York, London and Paris. The entire history of fashion in the 1980s is contained within the pages of Details. The magazines also document Cunningham’s rise to artistic maturity prior to his move to The New York Times as a full-time staff member in 1994.   DETAILS Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 5, 1982, Bill Cunningham’s “Paris Collections” DETAILS Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 5, 1982, Bill Cunningham’s “Paris Collections” – Paris streets style DETAILS Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 6, 1982, Bill Cunningham’s “The New York Collections” Triple Threat in DETAILS Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 6, 1982, Bill Cunningham’s “The New York Collections” DETAILS Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 7, 1982, Bill Cunningham’s “Ahead of the Game” DETAILS Magazine, Vol. 2 No. 1, 1983, Bill Cunningham’s “Fall Collections- New York” and “Plus Paris” Details Magazine, Vol. 4 No. 3, 1985:09 (September), Bill Cunningham Details Magazine, Vol. 4 No. 8, 1986:03 (March), Bill Cunningham London style in Details Magazine, Vol. 4 No. 8, 1986:03 (March), Bill Cunningham Counter card for the September issue of DETAILS Magazine, 1986. DETAILS Magazine, Vol. 6 No. 4, 1987:10 (October), Bill Cunningham’s 16-Page Retour a la Couture DETAILS Magazine, Vol. 6 No. 4, 1987:10 (October), Bill Cunningham’s 16-Page Retour a la Couture DETAILS Magazine, Vol. 8 No. 3, 1989:09 (September), Bill Cunningham’s 101-Page Fall Fashion Special DETAILS Magazine, Vol. 8 No. 3, 1989:09 (September), Bill Cunningham’s 101-Page Fall Fashion Special Via Gallery98 which has a fantastic archive of Bill Cunningham ephemera to buy. The post Bill Cunningham for Details Magazine – a 1980s Fashion Archive appeared first on Flashbak.