Ken Light – What’s Going On: America Then | LensCulture

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What’s Going On: America Then – Photographs and text by Ken Light | LensCulture

America in the late 60s and early 70s was an America full of fear and full of hope—a country at its worst and at its best and for all the difficulties, it was an America we should not forget

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Boomers had a dream, and maybe our dream was naïve. A lot of us believed we could live our lives and build the world around two basic precepts: love and peace. We believed we were the generation that would do away with war. We believed that we would do away with greed, and in its place we’d create a world that would revolve around compassion and camaraderie, personal and political liberation.