Our first chief photographer Baron Wolman discusses Woodstock's highlights and photographing the legendary fest JimmyDean 50thAnniversary
we traveled around the country to all kinds of music celebrations. Blues, bluegrass, country, folk, everything we could find. Halfway through our journey, we heard about Woodstock, and so we said we’ve got to go there for that, with no idea what it was all about. I told Jann, “You know, this Woodstock thing is going on. I’m going to be there; I’m going to shoot for you guys.” So I was basically shooting for the book and shooting forIt was crazy.
Baron Wolman during Santana’s set at Woodstock in 1969. Photograph by Bill Graham/Courtesy of Baron WolmanYeah, it was. Along the road close to the festival, I saw a motel. I stopped and I said, “‘Hey, do you guys have any rooms?’ ‘Yeah, we’ve got rooms.'” It was two nights or three nights. Everybody was out in the mud and the rain and shit. I’d go back to my motel and get a good night’s sleep. It was literally 10 miles from the venue and nobody knew about it.I never worried about my safety.
The military and the counterculture were at each other’s throats. It was 1969, there was still a draft, the Vietnam War was going on, everybody hated everybody. But the military came with their Medevac units and helicopters to help take away the people who had medical problems. And I thought, man, that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We’re all in the same country, why are we hating each other? The military and the counterculture, for one brief weekend, were getting along in the way it should be.
One thing I remember is that I wanted to have a picture of the entire crowd that I saw in front of me. The widest angle lens I had at the time was this 24 millimeter. And that 24 millimeter — which is pretty wide, especially from that distance — still could not encompass the entire crowd.Well, that’s a good story. Bill Graham took that picture. He brought Santana, and he was sitting back there playing the cowbell and I took a picture of him.
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