With their short hair and swastikas offsetting neat clothes,the skinheads who street photographer Derek Ridgers found roaming UK youth culture in the late-70s made a advantage of visual and social disruption[br]
• Shooting skinheads: Derek Ridgers captures a cult – in picturesIf you are old enough to remember London in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Derek Ridgers' modern book Skinheads 1979-1984 is a reminder of the latent aggression that defined youth culture in the capital, and sometimes made the journey home by night bus and tube train a risky commerce.
On the street,skinheads, who always seemed to travel in packs, or were a threatening presence. At gigs,especially during the 2-Tone era, they were disruptive going on violent, and often making the dancefloor at shows by the Specials,Madness and the Selecter a site where you had to watch your step even as the music urged you to execute otherwise.
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Source: theguardian.com