Around Michigan in the Late 1970s

In 1972, after three years in university, Hudson decided to get serious about his love of photography and enrolled in the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts, now called College for Creative Studies. “It was there that I began to study the history of photography and look seriously at the major practitioners of the game.” Said Hudson. “The FSA photographers, and in particular Walker Evans and Russell Lee, made a big impression. Their straight-on, literal-looking, richly informed images, began to resonate with me as to how a camera can record the visual world. 

“At the same time, Winogrand’s and Friedlander’s more personal response to the documentary look of the straight camera image, and their almost architectural construction of the photograph,” he continued, “began telling me that one should be careful about how that camera can transform what we are looking at, and what we can derive as to meaning.”

Take a look back at life around Michigan in the late 1970s through these fascinating black and white pictures. For more photographs, visit Hudson’s brilliant Flickr site.