Athletes compete in the Olympics men's 100m final, on October 14, 1968 in Mexico City, at the Mexico Olympic Games. Athletes are French Roger Bambuck , U.S Mel Pender , Jamaican Lennox Miller , U.S...
México 1968 - Ruta de la Amistad Ruta de la Amistad La Ruta de la Amistad es el legado, de ...
La identidad visual de los Juegos Olímpicos de México en 1968 fue vanguardista y simbólica. El diseño impactaba por lo sencillo y moderno...
The year was 1968 and the Summer Olympics (or the Games of the XIX Olympiad, as they were officially called!) were held in Mexico City, Mexico. The Mexican Olympics were notable for many things: they were the first Games hosted by a Latin American nation, they were the first Games to feature a woman torch-bearer lighting the Olympic flame…they were the […]
Lance Wyman; poster for the Mexico 1968 Olympics
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Two hostesses wearing the Mexico 1968 Olympic Games uniform, walk in the Olympic village, in October 1968 in Mexico city.
Eve Arnold, "Drop City" commune, New Mexico, 1968
Lance Wyman was an aspiring graphic designer in 1966 when he learned that the International Olympic Committee and the Mexican Olympic Committee were looking to hire a team to create the emblem and …
The year was 1968 and the Summer Olympics (or the Games of the XIX Olympiad, as they were officially called!) were held in Mexico City, Mexico. The Mexican Olympics were notable for many things: they were the first Games hosted by a Latin American nation, they were the first Games to feature a woman torch-bearer lighting the Olympic flame…they were the […]
Last year, we celebrated Georgia O’Keeffe’s 124th Birthday with by highlighting the work of “misunderstood artists” and discussed the sensual overtones of her flower pieces, sensual overtones she has always vehemently denied. Today, on what would…
1964 Tokyo Munich 1972 The Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico City, Mexico 1968 First Olympic Cauldron to be lit by a woman - 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games Olympic Ceremony Records italics indicate records at the time First Ol
A new exhibition of paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe will shine a light on an odd, obsessive artist
Original 1968 map of Palenque Mexico. This map was sourced from a 1968 travel guidebook, and measures approximately 6.25 x 4 inches, including the border. Text on the reverse side. Overall the map is in very good condition. Most antique maps have some flaws due to age, so please examine the scans carefully. Antique city and region maps make great gifts! This is an original antique map from a 1968 travel guidebook, not a modern reproduction. Figure10 sells no reproductions, only original prints and maps! We offer combined shipping. One shipping cost per order for all antique and vintage prints and maps. All maps come in a clear protective sleeve, and are secured inside protective cardboard to ensure your item is safe during shipping. ***************** Would you like this item framed and ready to hang when we send it to you? Click here to purchase custom framing: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Figure10?section_id=16031438&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1 *****************
In an exclusive excerpt from Slim Aarons: Women, author Laura Hawk, who worked with the photographer for more than a decade, reflects on the man behind the lens
' ' Some really fantastic design work from New York native and designer Lance Wyman for the 1968 Olympics. The 60s Op-Ar...
"The goal of Olympism is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practised without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play. Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement. " Olympic Charter, Fundamental Principles In a world where discrimination of all sorts remains to be a reality, the Olympics can't escape it. The spirit of friendship and solidarity can be realized only by acknowledging and addressing the realities existing. The historic Black Power Salute or Human Rights Salute in the 1968 Olympics testified this. On the morning of 16 October 1968, U.S. athlete Tommie Smith won the 200 meter race in a world-record time of 19.83 seconds, with Australia's Peter Norman second with a time of 20.06 seconds, and the U.S.'s John Carlos in third place with a time of 20.10 seconds. After the race was completed, the three went to collect their medals at the podium. The two U.S. athletes received their medals shoeless, but wearing black socks, to represent black poverty. Smith wore a black scarf around his neck to represent black pride, Carlos had his tracksuit top unzipped to show solidarity with all blue collar workers in the U.S. and wore a necklace of beads which he described "were for those individuals that were lynched, or killed and that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred. It was for those thrown off the side of the boats in the middle passage. All three athletes wore Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) badges after Norman, a critic of Australia's White Australia Policy, expressed empathy with their ideals. Sociologist Harry Edwards, the founder of the OPHR, had urged black athletes to boycott the games; reportedly, the actions of Smith and Carlos on 16 October 1968 were inspired by Edwards' arguments. Both U.S. athletes intended on bringing black gloves to the event, but Carlos forgot his, leaving them in the Olympic Village. It was the Australian, Peter Norman, who suggested Carlos wear Smith's left-handed glove, this being the reason behind him raising his left hand, as opposed to his right, differing from the traditional Black Power salute. When "The Star-Spangled Banner" played, Smith and Carlos delivered the salute with heads bowed, a gesture which became front page news around the world. As they left the podium they were booed by the crowd 'Black America will understand' At a press conference after the event Tommie Smith, who held seven world records at that time, said: "If I win I am an American, not a black American. But if I did something bad then they would say 'a Negro'. We are black and we are proud of being black. "Black America will understand what we did tonight." International Olympic Committee (IOC) president, Avery Brundage, deemed it to be a domestic political statement, unfit for the apolitical, international forum the Olympic Games were supposed to be. In an immediate response to their actions, he ordered Smith and Carlos suspended from the U.S. team and banned from the Olympic Village. When the US Olympic Committee refused, Brundage threatened to ban the entire US track team. This threat led to the two athletes being expelled from the Games. A spokesman for the IOC said it was "a deliberate and violent breach of the fundamental principles of the Olympic spirit. Brundage, who was president of the United States Olympic Committee in 1936, had made no objections against Nazi Salutes during the Berlin Olympics. He argued that the Nazi salute, being a national salute at the time, was acceptable in a competition of nations, while the athletes' salute was not of a nation and therefore unacceptable. Brundage had been one of the United States' most prominent Nazi sympathisers even after the outbreak of the Second World War, and his removal as president of the IOC had been one of the three stated objectives of the Olympic Project for Human Rights. The three athletes and the OPHR proved that the rhetoric of equality and brotherhood will remain mere words unless they are practiced. To know more on Black Power Salute check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute#cite_note-11
Dans l'histoire des Jeux Olympiques, bon nombre de délégations ont marqué les esprits par leurs tenues particulièrement audacieuses voire franchement étonnantes. A l'approche de la cérémonie d'ouverture des Jeux de Rio, retour sur une compétition aux enjeux stylistiques.
