When Elvis Was King
by Doug Matthews
Title
When Elvis Was King
Artist
Doug Matthews
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
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.
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November 2nd, 2014
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Jim Williams
The '50s, '60s and '70s: I remember them well. Well ... maybe not well. Well ... maybe not. Oh, well. l, f, WHAT?
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 : )
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