Candy Clark and her Polaroid vision of New Hollywood: ‘Back then people would just pose, they weren’t so fussy about their photos like they are today’

In the 1970s, the actress Candy Clark was a twenty-something new arrival to Los Angeles who, after getting a few gigs as a model in New York, had landed the roles of Faye in Fat City (1972) and Debbie in American Graffiti (1973), the latter of which earned her an Oscar nomination. Without realizing it, she had landed in the middle of an era that would become known — and mythologized — as New Hollywood. It was the moment of the debut of directors and performers who would wind up becoming cinema legends — Steven Spielberg, Robin Williams and Anjelica Huston — contemporary artists like Edward Ruscha and writers who would soon become household names, like Terry Southern and Ray Bradbury. And wherever she went, Clark brought her Polaroid SX-70, with which she took some 87 photographs of the era’s protagonists. She saved the shots in a box in her home. Fifty-five years later, she’s brought her Polaroids and New Hollywood nostalgia out for her book Tight Heads.

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Fuente: El País