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&section_id=24