life:

In 1964, LIFE photographer Michael Rougier and correspondent Robert Morse spent time documenting one Japanese generation’s age of revolt, and came away with an astonishingly intimate, frequently unsettling portrait of teenagers hurtling willfully toward oblivion.

In Rougier’s photographs — pictures that seem to breathe, at once, a reckless energy and an acute despair — we don’t merely glimpse kids pushing the boundaries of rebellion. Instead, we’re offered the rare and disquieting gift of complicity: this generation of lost boys and girls, Rougier’s pictures suggest, is trying to tell us something — something reproachful and perplexing — about the world we’ve made. Or rather, the world that we’ve broken.

Caption from original story in the Sept. 11, 1964, issue of LIFE: ”Kako, languid from sleeping pills she takes, is lost in a world of her own in a jazz shop in Tokyo.”

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updownsmilefrown:

Gloria H. Richardson, a civil rights leader in Cambridge, Maryland, responds to an order from a National Guardsman enforcing martial law, 1963

by Fred Ward

babylonfalling:

Photo of Kathleen Cleaver by Gerhard Gscheidle for San Francisco Express Times (1968)

kvetchlandia:

Paul Strand     Afe Negble, Asenema, Ghana      1964

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weirdfriends:

Mende girls in a cloth draped bower at the completion of Sande schooling.

nevver:

“Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

missfolly:

Elliott Erwitt: Confessional, Poland, 1964 

(Source: blunthought, via theeducatedfieldnegro)