Author Description

"The photographs and captions in this book are drawn from Rennie Ellis's own unpublished manuscript, 'Decade: an experience of the seventies in Australia.' He describes this original document as 'a distillation of the essence of the seventies' and explains that, rather than being a definitive record of the 1970s, it is 'a personal account of a time of great change'. His photographs explore the cultures and subcultures of the decade, as well as the emerging decadence and hedonism that would come to characterise society in the 1980s."--Foreword / Manuela Furci, page 9.