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Visible Girls: London’s lost #female #subcultures [#geekgirl]

Lynne and Penny at home in Kingston, March 1981.

Lynne and Penny at home in Kingston, March 1981.

In the early 1980s, photographer Anita Corbin documented the “informal uniforms” of young women’s subcultures across London. Corbin photographed rude girls, rockabillies, mods, skinheads, and some “less defined” female groups including soul, rasta, punk and futurist, as well as those involved “in and around the women’s liberation movement.”  Her photographs were exhibited in a travelling exhibition organized by the Cockpit Gallery Project called Visible Girls in 1981.

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