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by Doug Matthews
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This image is not so much about Elvis as it is about the era in which he was popular. For 20 years - a generation - from the mid-1950s to the... more
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This image is not so much about Elvis as it is about the era in which he was popular. For 20 years - a generation - from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, with the Cold War and nuclear testing as a backdrop, the songs of Elvis Presley were popular. At the same time, a generation of baby boomers came of age. Their early simplistic and idealistic views of life, witnessed by the nuclear family, the sexualization of women as ideal Playboy bunnies - or pinups (mine) as in this image - and the notion that flower power could overcome greed and big business, soon gave way to reality. Greater equality for women and unprecedented globalization that brought foreign wars to the doorstep of the west were too much to handle. Their innocence - whether history would judge it as positive or negative - had blown up with the remaining sputters of bomb tests.
I began photography with a Brownie camera my parents gave me as a child sometime in the 1950s. In the 1970s I finally graduated to an SLR and actually won a few contests, then took a hiatus through the 1990s but picked up digital photography in earnest in the mid-2000s. Now, many years later, it still excites me to venture out and try to find what the world is all about in my own way through this wonderful medium. To me, photography is about capturing the hidden meaning, the emotion, and the invisible in a given moment in time. It transcends mere composition and lighting. When it's done well, we sit up and take notice, we pause over an image, and if everything is perfect, we might even feel that slight tingling up the spine. While I try...
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Jim Williams
By the way, welcome to WHAT?, Doug.
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks for the feature, Jim
Jim Williams
The '50s, '60s and '70s: I remember them well. Well ... maybe not well. Well ... maybe not. Oh, well. l, f, WHAT?
Sora Neva
Bravissimo! Your artwork is featured in Women Who Run With the Wolves.
Doug Matthews replied:
Thank you for the feature, Sora
Heloisa Castro
Very creative! fav
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Heloisa
Kathleen K Parker
How very clever, Doug! :) kk
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Kathleen. Well, I lived through the period so I figured I might as well comment on it : )
Caitlyn Grasso
Very original!
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Caitlyn
Jutta Maria Pusl
Awesome... very creative work!
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Jutta
Miroslava Jurcik
Creative !
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Miroslava
Stephen Stookey
Terrific work! l/f
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Stephen
Hanny Heim
Cool Image !
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Hanny
Doug Matthews
Thanks so much, everyone.
Marcia Lee Jones
Interesting work!
Gary Richards
Cool!
Norm Starks
Very creative, Doug.
Marco Oliveira
Great work! V.
Robert Bales
Very nice work to get this outstanding presentation Doug!! v/f/t
Eti Reid
Cool!f/v