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In 1972, both political parties decided to have their conventions on Miami Beach. I guess that a lot of cities, having seen the riots and bad publicity to come out of the 1968 DNC convention in Chicago, elected not to bid for 1972. It worked out well for me. I got credentialed to shoot for the Broward County (FL) Republican Party. That got me inside the RNC convention.
Many of these shots in this series are scanned from old 35mm contact proofs or 3x5 machine prints. They were not selected for their quality, but rather as a time capsule of the way national party conventions used to be, before they became "coronations" of presidential candidates who already had the nomination in their pockets..
CONVENTIONs19720006
In 1972, both political parties decided to have their conventions on Miami Beach. I guess that a lot of cities, having seen the riots and bad publicity to come out of the 1968 DNC convention in Chicago, elected not to bid for 1972. It worked out well for me. I got credentialed to shoot for the Broward County (FL) Republican Party. That got me inside the RNC convention.
Many of these shots in this series are scanned from old 35mm contact proofs or 3x5 machine prints. They were not selected for their quality, but rather as a time capsule of the way national party conventions used to be, before they became "coronations" of presidential candidates who already had the nomination in their pockets..