Rolling Stone Photographer's Iconic Work On Display In Westwood Gallery

“Janis lived a few doors down, the Dead were just around the corner, and the kid living upstairs from me took too much acid and walked in delirium out the third-floor window, splatting fatally onto the hard, filthy pavement of Haight Street below. The year was ’67, and everyone was grooving”. –Baron Wolman

  This weeks viewfinder was special too me as a photographer. As an artist I’m inspired by so many things, especially the work of others. Growing up I had many artists whose work inspired me to pick up a camera and start taking pictures, artists I envied and looked up to. Saturday I had the privilege to meet and spend the day with on of these artists that I admire and have admired for years and years. That man is Baron Wolman, Baron is a photographer who was one of the original staff at Rolling Stone magazine, and it was Baron’s pictures that helped to make Rolling Stone into the magazine it is today. During his tenure, Wolman’s lens captured the royalty of the ‘60s pop and rock explosion: Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Jim Morrison, etc. All of these pictures can be found in his new book “The Rolling Stone Years”. You can also view these photos at 270 Gallery in Westwood where Baron spent all day signing copies of his book.