Loving Couples Posing For Studio Portraits in the 1970s

Before the ubiquitous smart phone and achieving physical perfection through fillers and filters, anyone seeking a professional look hired a studio photographer. These portraits of couples from the 1970s are a release from all that narcissism. The lovers paid for these pictures because they wanted one picture of themselves good enough to hang on a wall. The hair is permed or whipped (sometime both), collars and lapels are generous and those manmade fabrics are designed to last. And the smiles are often warm and challenge our cynicism about these pictures always being awkward and overly forced.