Featuring striking images of twentieth-century icons, such as Janis
Joplin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, Grace
Slick, and others, The Haight is an indispensable gallery of legendary
photographer Jim Marshall's iconic sixties-era San Francisco
photography--now available in a smaller, easy-to-carry size perfect for
students, tourists, and other readers on-the-go.
The counterculture movement of the 1960s is one of the most continually
fascinating and endlessly examined milestones of the twentieth century.
The footprint of that movement reverberates strongly today in music,
fashion, literature, art, and society as a whole. Widely regarded as the
cradle of revolution, California's Haight-Ashbury grew in the sixties
from a small neighborhood in San Francisco to a worldwide phenomenon--a
concept that extended far beyond the boundaries of the street
intersection itself.
Jim Marshall visually chronicled the neighborhood as perhaps no one else
did. Renowned for his powerful portraits of some of the greatest
musicians of the era, Marshall covered Haight-Ashbury with the same
unique eye that allowed him to amass a staggering archive of music
photography and Grammy recognition for his lifework. In this
one-of-a-kind book, the full extent of Marshall's Haight-Ashbury archive
is stunningly displayed; powerful candids, intimate portraits, and
images of live concerts, street scenes, crash pads, alleyways, and the
Human Be-In are collected in the definitive photographic record of a
watershed moment in time.
Featuring hundreds of striking images of icons, ranging from Jimi
Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bill Graham, Grace Slick, and the Jefferson
Airplane to the Beatles, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and Bob Dylan,
The Haight tells the complete and comprehensive story of the street,
creative, cultural, and revolutionary aspects of the day. Written by
best-selling San Francisco music journalist Joel Selvin, the story
behind each and every one of these incomparable images is disclosed
through an intimate and revealing narrative, lending the images a
fascinating context and perspective.
Bold and beautifully crafted, The Haight captures the full scope and
nuance of Marshall's San Francisco photography and offers fresh insight
into the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, and beyond.
