![]() The Festival was shot in the pre-digital days when film cameras were for the most part limited to 36 exposures on film. I hadn’t switched over to the mindset of a photojournalist.”Ĭaraeff came away with the Hendrix-on-his-knees shot, one of the most famous images in popular music history. A lot of the performances, I just watched because I was fascinated by the performers. “I was not just click, click, click,” he said. He went on to have an astonishing career shooting rock stars in candid shots, performance and for album covers (including the famous Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Déjà Vu” album cover). Tom O’Neal had only recently decided to become a rock photographer. The photographers each approached the festival with different levels of experience. They say so much about what was going on at the time.” “There are a lot of shots of the crowd too, which was so interesting to us. The exhibit is not all rock-star worshipping, said Hunt. “Alongside each of these images,” said Hunt, “we’ll have quotes and stories to give you a sense of what the artist was thinking at the time.” “Rock ’n’ roll took off (at Monterey Pop) and it took all these people with them,” said co-curator Brooks Manbeck.įrom more than 2,000 images submitted by the photographers, the curators at the museum chose 50 in an effort to present as wide and comprehensive representation of the festival as possible. De Wilde was living in Big Sur and showed up at the festival to work as a stage hand. Law and Mayes, who was a New Yorker, came down from covering the scene in San Francisco. Caraeff and Diltz – the latter a pal of the band Buffalo Springfield – both came up from Southern California. Arellano and O’Neal were local Monterey Peninsula kids, both amateurs who began their careers at Monterey Pop. The seven photographers represent a cross-section of experience at Monterey Pop, which was seen at the time as a historic summit meeting between the respective musical countercultures of San Francisco and Los Angeles. ![]() “It’ll be the first time that all seven of these photographers will be in the same room since Monterey Pop,” said the exhibit’s co-curator Alexandria Hunt. On Friday, June 2, the exhibit officially opens with an opening reception at the museum and on Thursday, June 15, all of the featured photographers will be on hand for a Photographers Roundtable. The exhibit features seven photographers who between them have created some of the most memorable images from the festival, including Ed Caraeff’s immortal shot of Jim Hendrix on his knees on stage coaxing the flames that are engulfing his guitar, the only shot to have ever landed on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine twice.Ĭaraeff’s images will be on display alongside those of Henry Diltz, Elaine Mayes, Fred Arellano, Jerry de Wilde, Lisa Law and Tom Gundelfinger O’Neal.
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