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Baron Wolman
• In 1967 he was a 30 years old and a freelance photojournalist in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury
• He was approached by Jann Wenner she had an Idea of staring a rock magazine.
• He became chief photographer for the magazine Rolling Stone
• He got the opportunity of a life time shooting some of the biggest names in rock-and-roll.
• His photos are exhibited in fine art galleries around the world.
The Grateful Dead playing in Golden Gate park
Date:1967
"Those Dead shows in the park would draw few hundred people, You could
climb up on the back of the
bandstand and you could hang out with
the band afterwards."
The Grateful Dead at 710 Ashbury Street
Wolman's first shoot for Rolling Stone was
with the Grateful Dead, just after the
band had been busted on marijuana charges. Wolman followed the band as they posted bail then held a press conference, but ended up shooting them at the Dead's house in
Haight-Ashbury
Date: 1967
Young man selling copies of the
Oracle
"Tourists were coming to Haight Street to see hippies, During the
Summer of Love kids would make any money
by buying these [counterculture] newspapers from
whoever was publishing them for a quarter. Then
they'd sell them for a dollar, because the
tourists wanted some kind of hippie memento."
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix came to San Francisco for his first gig at the legendary Fillmore auditorium.
Wolman was there, and the result was one of the greatest rock and roll photos of all time. "I was onstage and the music
was so loud I put Kleenex in my ears," Wolman said. "In order to get a great live shot of a band, you have to be completely in-tune with them .You have to
anticipate their moves. I was so in touch with the band that
night. I felt like I was playing my Nikon while they were playing
their Fenders or their Gibsons."
Date: February of 1968
Pamela Des
Barres
Pamela was shot for the Rolling Stone's "Groupie Issue" in1968. She wrote a tell-all book, I'm With the
Band, she's hugely intelligent, a really interesting woman."
This shot of Jerry Garcia taken for a Rolling Stone cover story on the Grateful Dead in 1969. It marked the first time most people noticed the guitarist
was missing a digit, the result of a childhood accident. The shot became the official logo for the Jerry Garcia estate "I
thought he was doing something with his finger to blow me off or something or give me the finger in some
weird way," Wolman said. "For years I tried to do what he did
and I couldn't. And then I heard the story of how he lost
the finger."
References
• http://www.baronwolman.com/index.php?images
• http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/15288250/baron_wolman
• http://www.fotobaron.com/?content_id=15§ion_id=24