Hacker News with Generative AI: 1960s

Help Identify the Photographer Who Captured Many Images of 1960s San Francisco (smithsonianmag.com)
Discovered in an abandoned storage locker, the 2,042 processed color slides and 102 rolls of black-and-white film depict key moments in the city’s history

Photography, San Francisco, History, 1960s

114 points by gnabgib 16 days ago | 42 comments

Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020) (musicaficionado.blog)
A curious tale this, about an artist who draws an album cover for a band he does not care for, playing a music style he does not listen to, appealing to an audience he does not connect with. And to top it, the art selected for the front cover was the one he intended for the back cover. The result: one of the most iconic album covers to come out of the late 1960s.

Music, Art, Design, Album Covers, 1960s

181 points by stareatgoats 150 days ago | 86 comments

Destination Amaltheia – Soviet Science Fiction (1962) (archive.org)

Science Fiction, Soviet Union, Literature, Books, 1960s

12 points by the-mitr 333 days ago | 1 comments