Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive (PYMCA) is an unique on-line Social History and Youth Culture Website offering image licensing, on-line learning and research.
It contains thousands of pictures covering virtually all subculters.
Previously accessible only for licensed journalists, now PYMCA launched its own zine.
Py-zine enables everyone to browse through numbers of photos and see authentic teddy boys, mods, ravers, goths and many more.
I highly reccomend visiting it to anyone who wants to find out more about youth culture of previous decades. It perfectly how radical young people used to be while expressing their musical tastes and world view.
Here are some photos that I found especially interesting:
A group of Ska girls, posing together, outside Friars, Aylesbury, UK 1980. ©Janette Beckman/PYMCA
Skinhead girl wearing Fred Perry Polo Shirt, London 1980’s. ©Ted Polhemus
Two goths wearing dark attire, thick make-up and lots of jewellery, London, U.K, 1980s. ©Ted Polhemus
A young teenage Mod, posing with two girls, Streatham, London, UK 1976. ©Janette Beckman/PYMCA
Mods running along the pier. ©Eugene Adebari/Rex Features/PYMCA
Sources: http://py-zine.com/, http://www.pymca.com/
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