About the Book:
Grit and Glamour: The Street Style, High Fashion, and Legendary Music of the 1970s (Insight Editions, 2016) features an incredible range of photography by famed artist Allan Tannenbaum covering the styles and fashions of the iconic decade, including stars and artists such as the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, and Andy Warhol.
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Take a journey back to the decadent decade of the 1970s with this dazzling collection of photographs from award-winning photographer Allan Tannenbaum. Grit and Glamour offers a tour-de-force journey into the visual glories of this exuberantly fashionable time. Iconic black-and-white and color photos from the Big Apple’s glamorous era paint an immersive picture of how the fashion gurus and stylish personalities of the decade influenced the way everyone dressed in public life. With photographs of the Stones, John Lennon, Andy Warhol, and the myriad celebrities and scene-makers that surrounded them, Tannenbaum’s lens provides an insider’s look at the wild fashions, flamboyant clothes and accessories of the 70s. Each section of the book focuses on a different aspect of the decade—from nightlife, fashion, and street scene to arts and entertainment and music, accompanied by insightful commentary and revealing anecdotes.
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Miss Rosen’s Contribution:
Grit and Glamour: The Street Style, High Fashion, and Legendary Music of the 1970s features an essay on street style by Miss Rosen.
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Excerpt from the Essay:
The streets of New York have always been where it’s at…
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It must be something in the air, something like the rush of a drug going straight to your head, the feeling that anything could happen out here. It must be something in the hard concrete, in the sound of heels pounding the pavement while the wind whips through your hair and the flow of energies from hundreds and thousands of people going on there way to who knows where. It must be something in the water, something that goes straight to the blood, for it is in the streets of New York that style is born.
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The photographs of Allan Tannenbaum capture the streets of New York as an every day thoroughfare for the stylish folk at a time when originality and innovation was all the rage. As Tannenbaum remembers, “In the ‘70s, you didn’t need a lot of money. People did more with less. The D.I.Y. energy of the city sparked creativity.” It was this creative energy that gave birth to a New York, a city that proved when the going got tough, the tough made art.
—Miss Rosen
Brooklyn, 2015
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Photographs ©Allan Tannenbaum
Book cover and layouts courtesy of Insight Editions/Simon & Schuster