Harvey Milk Photo Montage
A blog I read from time to time, East Village Boys, has a montage of photographs by Dan Nicoletta, a photographer, political activist, and friend of Harvey Milk. The photos cover some of Milk's life and the environment of the San Francisco Castro district in the 1970's (note: this particular post is G-rated, but many of EVB's posts contain adult content).The movie Milk moved me more than I've been moved in a long time, but it wasn't Harvey Milk's death that got to me--it was watching so many people getting together for a cause they were so passionate about. I saw the movie the week after the Prop. 8 fiasco, so the scenes in the movie struck a specific chord at the time. The pictures over at EVB show how real the environment the movie portrays really was. I can't imagine how both empowering and frightening that time period must have been back then.
Check out the post, and if you haven't see Milk.
posted by Brady @ 9:02 AM
4 Comments:
I really want Sean Penn to win at the Oscars. He just exuded a happiness and warmth I haven't seen in his other movies (except maybe in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, lol).
Hi!
Milk is gonna be back at the Castro Theater next month in the weeks leading up to the Oscars so I hope to go see it there this time.
Loved the link. Wonderful to see so many photos from a person who lived it.
Those photos are really cool - although I can't say I miss all the moustaches. :{ hehe
I want to see MILK again b/c I saw it with my aunt and I was planning on coming out to her afterwards, using the movie as a springboard. It went really well, but the whole time I was watching it I had my mind half-elsewhere. And still, I realized that it was a great movie.
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