"turbulent america" 1960- 1990-photographer jean pierre laffont

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Presidential candidate and New York senator Robert Kennedy greets supporters on a campaign stop in Fort Greene, Brooklyn on 1 April, 1968.

Born inAlgeriain 1935, Jean-Pierre Laffont attended high school and college inMorocco where he graduated in 1955. Is aphotojournalist, based inNew York.Photographer's Paradise: Turbulent America 1960-1990 by Jean-Pierre LaffontFrom the KKK to gay kissing: the man who photographed America's most turbulent times.

Muhammad Ali finger-pointing during the weigh-in before his second boxing match with Joe Frazier on 23 January, 1974, in New York. Ali won the fight and regained the title.

On Fox Street in the Bronx, an abandoned Plymouth Savoy becomes a jungle gym for kids to play on in the summer of 1966.

Two men flip the bird at the Central Park crowd thats formed as they compete in the kissing contest during New Yorks inaugural Gay Pride celebration on 28 June 1970.

A fist raised in protest from behind the bars at Toms Prison, Manhattan, on 28 September, 1972.

Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas on 7 May, 1977.

Manhattan, New York City, New York / May, 1980 A prostitute leans playfully on a cop car on 42nd Street Times Square. The police struggled to keep up with the onslaught of crime in the area, and at times seemed to be playing a friendly game of cat and mouse with the hookers.

Manhattan, New York City, New York / October, 1975 Two homeless men squat in the shadow of the recently completed World Trade Center. New York City was on the verge of bankruptcy and the World Trade Center sat largely vacant, unable to find companies to fill its large office spaces.

Guam Island / June 1972 A member of the US Air Force loads bombs onto a B-52 in preparation for bombing missions over Vietnam during Operation Arc Light. This photo, published as a double page in The New York Times, will become an iconic photo

The empty streets of Amarillo, Texas on 7 May, 1977.

Watkins Glen, New York / July 28, 1973 A young couple kisses as the chaos of the crowd whirs around them with an estimated 600,000 rock fans. The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen was a 1973 rock festival which once received the Guinness Book of World Records entry for Largest audience at a pop festival.

Fort Dix, New Jersey / May, 1980 Men and women finally equal in the American Army. In 1980 the US allows women to actively serve in the military. Here, women take part in basic training against atomic radiation.

August 13, 1969: A ticker-tape shower for Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins after their return from the moon.

Dry Branch, Arkansa, December 1980. Mr Roc Mc Tigert is 80 and lives alone on his farm. He can no longer afford to buy gas so he uses a horse like in the old days.

A Ku Klux Klan meeting in Dunham Springs, LA, December 1976.

Plains, Georgia, December 1976: this family were the nearest neighbours to Jimmy Carters family home at the time of his election as US president.

May 2, 1970: Yale students rally in support of the Black Panthers.

Valerie Mayers shows off her biceps backstage before winning the Ms Empire State Competition in New York, 20 June 1981.

An unnamed New York couple (summer 1967)

President Richard M. Nixon and his wife levying the White House in a helicopter, going to their home in San Clemente, Calif., after resigning his office in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Washington, D.C. Aug. 9, 1974.

New York City, New York / April 26, 1984 When the Statue of Liberty has a face-lift, major restoration is required. It lasted four years and cost $62 million

The renovation of the Statue of Liberty, which lasted four years and cost $62 million, 1984

A subject showing off falsies (New York, 1967)

Hippies at the Summer Jam in New York State carry a woman who has fainted, 1973

Transvestite prostitutes in New York, 1967

A man fixes his makeup during Gay Pride in Central Park (June 1971)

The second annual Gay Pride Week in New York City (June 1971)

April 14, 1974: New York's AT&T switchboard operators at work, on the day before automated switching replaces them.

A transvestite prepares himself for a night of work (summer 1967)

June 20, 1971: Linotype operators typeset the next day's New YorkTimes,during a surge in newspaper sales owing to the publication of the Pentagon Papers.

Bronx, New York / July 20, 1972: Members of the New York street gang Savage Skulls strike a pose reminiscent of West Side Story. The trademark of the primarily Puerto Rican gang was a sleeveless denim jacket with a skull and cross- bones design on the back. Based in the South Bronx neighborhood of Hunts Point, the gang declared war on the drug dealers that operated in the area as well as running battles with rival gangs

May 30, 1973: As the Arab oil embargo causes a spike in gasoline prices, VW Beetles are unloaded in the port of New York.

Manhattan, New York / 1977: Boys gone wild at New York's legendary Studio 54, where debauchery, sex, drugs and disco ruled from 1977 until 1981, when amidst scandal and legal action, the nightclub was sold by founders and creators Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager

March 16, 1974: Brooklyn Wiccans dance in celebration.

January 25, 1984: Apple's new Macintosh computers come off the production line.

July 4, 1986: Watching Operation Sail's tall ships from a West Side building.

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