The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: 1960s

I rediscovered this copy of 'She' magazine dated December, 1966. Capriciously I distorted the photograph in processing. The words are nevertheless legible. The woman in the picture (who had no function to perform in regard to the men's coat under review) now looks even more stricken by something. The magazine gave no credit to the photographer. He or she clearly knew their stuff and maybe couldn't care less about acknowledgement beyond being paid. I should like to see more examples of this photographer's work. 'She' was a British women's monthly magazine that ran for 56 years, from 1955 to September, 2011. having been relaunched in 1988 and revitalised in 2005. It was quite good but the magazine industry is cut-throat. It was unintentional, but it seems to me that the effect of distorting the image has been to make the model look a bit like Victoria Beckham, the former Posh Spice.

Fashion feature in a 1960s magazine. Photographed with a Nikon D2Xs and a Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 AI lens. Sixty years ago the photographic style seemed more confident and the creative ideas more diverse and occasionally ambiguous.

PARIS autumn ready-to-wear grown-up casual pulled-together stops just above the knee LEATHER youth kick new look

The Secret Service knew that Uncle Quentin's secretary was connected to an agency in Great James Street. Moving quickly, they detained Quentin at Dover with his suitcase containing the prototype guidance system. Meanwhile, Special Branch arrested a woman thought to be Quentin's secretary but she turned out to be a Surbiton housewife on a shopping spree in Bloomsbury. The real go-between was never found.

Peter Pan Foundations, Shepherd Street, Mayfair, London. 1966 'She' magazine advertisement. With some adaptations, including small ads from an 'Evening Standard' of similar vintage. A grunge-free edit with a sprinkling of Harpic. Not everyone will know what Harpic is/was. The original Harpic lavatory bowl cleaner was invented by Harry Pickup (hence the origin of the name Harpic). It was chiefly bleach in powder form. It hasn't been on sale in shops in the UK for a long time, and even overseas, where Harpic products are apparently still available in some countries, the powder form seems to have been long discontinued. A great shame, because it was useful in sanitising crap photographs.

Reg Lancaster worked for the Daily Express for over 40 years. Photographed with a Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens.

Photographed direct from the screen from the earlier picture with a yellow acetate superimposed. It still wasn't right so I adjusted the tint in Lightroom. Every time you pull this stunt the image degrades, like a bad copy on a dirty photocopier. And oddly, it looks improved over the advertisement clipped from a 1960s magazine. At least, I think so.

Ballito advertisement, early 1970s. There was a picture as well which I have not bothered with.

Whilst leafing through an old 'Nova' magazine, it fell open at an unusual angle where the right-hand page was an advertisement for a Volvo car. The left-hand page being a stronger image, I converted it to black and white and increased contrast. However, the best part of the car advertisement - the couple admiring the car - somehow became isolated and more interesting.

The dress was such a strong component in this advertisement from the 1960s that it was easy to make its occupant fade in significance via a few judicious shunts of the sliders in the processing software.

Both period covers: a 'Camera' magazine and a Corgi poetry anthology. The latter, being vibrant colour, has the upper hand.

A book covered with the small ads page of the 'Evening Standard' of Thursday, April 7th, 1966, with other bits pasted on top: 'river plunge kills seven' from the 'Daily Express' of Tuesday, April 30th, 1968; a sticker of Picasso's 'Buste de Femme au Chapeau', a linocut from 1962 which I dared to modify; a photograph of a girl on a lone peace campaign I once saw when visiting Lacock Abbey, a strange place to make a protest, but a welcome sight nevertheless. All these things have somehow come together with the help of Pritt stick and watercolours. Photographed with a Chinon 55mm f/1.7 lens on a Canon EOS 30D.

Canon EOS 40D + Pentacon Auto f/1.8 50mm lens.

The first Zenit-E models were produced in the KMZ plant in 1965. Over 8 million were manufactured. The Kodak Instamatic 204 was made in the UK between 1966 and 1968. Of course it was cheaper than the Soviet Zenit, but the results were often terrible. The Zenit was a single-lens reflex camera based on the Zorki rangefinder body. The Zorki line of rangefinder cameras was originally a direct Leica copy. Therefore, Zenit = Leica. (Maybe). The Zenit pentaprism is small, thus what you see through the viewfinder is only about two-thirds of what will be recorded on the film. Nonetheless it is vastly superior to a point-and-shoot camera with film in a cartridge lacking a proper pressure plate to keep it flat and even. Many Zenit cameras were supplied with a Helios-44 lens of 58mm focal length and a maximum aperture of f/2. This lens was a Soviet copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar lens and had distinctive bokeh characteristics. So Helios = Zeiss. (Possibly). Photograph made with a Nikon D700 + a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.