Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1967.
Copyright Manolis Daloukas.
Archive Simos 1967/51 . All photos in High Resolution.
Donovan and friends (the girl is probably Sue Lion) at the Portobello Market, in London. The year is 1967 and the season is Spring, when Donovan worked on his album "A Gift from a Flower to a Garden".
Lazy on a sunny afternoon. Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, London, 1967
Mods waiting for Bee Gees live performance, outside the historic club TILES, London.
Support group was The Tangerine Peel
All photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1967.
Protests against the Vietnam War.
Trafalgar Square.
Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, May of 1967
Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948, generalizing
from his social circle to characterize the underground, anti-conformist
youth gathering in New York at that time. The name came up in
conversation with the novelist John Clellon Holmes who published an early Beat Generation novel, Go (1952), along with a manifesto in The New York Times Magazine: "This Is the Beat Generation" In 1954, Nolan Miller published his third novel, Why I Am So Beat (Putnam), detailing the weekend parties of four students.
The word "beatnik" was coined by Herb Caen in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1958. Caen coined the term by adding the Russian suffix -nik after Sputnik I
to the Beat Generation. Caen's column with the word came six months
after the launch of Sputnik. Objecting to Caen's twist on the term,
Allen Ginsberg wrote to the New York Times to deplore "the foul
word beatnik," commenting, "If beatniks and not illuminated Beat poets
overrun this country, they will have been created not by Kerouac but by
industries of mass communication which continue to brainwash man."
(Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis)
Born André Dupont (1911-1999), Aguigui Mouna's first manifesto was to
remain on a tree for 16 hours in Golfe-Juan in 1956. Known in Paris all
around the "Quartier Latin" (universities district in Paris), you often
saw him on a bicycle with a red phone, selling his self-edited mag "Le
Mouna Frères". He was nominated "chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" by
the minister of Culture Jack Lang. His philosophy was a mix of
anarchism, ecology, peace and humour!
(Phtograph by Simos Tsapnidis,1968)
Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, at Carnaby Str.London. July, 1967.
Copyright Manolis Daloukas.
More photos in our archives, all in High Resolution.
Swinging London is a catch-all term applied to the fashion and cultural scene that flourished in London, in the 1960s.
It was a youth-oriented
phenomenon that emphasised the new and modern. It was a period of
optimism and hedonism, and a cultural revolution. One catalyst was the
recovery of the British economy after post-World War II austerity which lasted through much of the 1950s.
Protests against the Vietnam War.
Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948, generalizing
from his social circle to characterize the underground, anti-conformist
youth gathering in New York at that time. The name came up in
conversation with the novelist John Clellon Holmes who published an early Beat Generation novel, Go (1952), along with a manifesto in The New York Times Magazine: "This Is the Beat Generation" In 1954, Nolan Miller published his third novel, Why I Am So Beat (Putnam), detailing the weekend parties of four students.
The word "beatnik" was coined by Herb Caen in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1958. Caen coined the term by adding the Russian suffix -nik after Sputnik I
to the Beat Generation. Caen's column with the word came six months
after the launch of Sputnik. Objecting to Caen's twist on the term,
Allen Ginsberg wrote to the New York Times to deplore "the foul
word beatnik," commenting, "If beatniks and not illuminated Beat poets
overrun this country, they will have been created not by Kerouac but by
industries of mass communication which continue to brainwash man."
