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SANDY AND MIKE AT HOME Sandy and Mike were friends of mine who lived in Berkeley. I knew Sandy from Art School. They both were doing ceramics for a living. Sandy danced topless in North Beach, made pottery and beads that Mike made into sculptures and hangings. They were the archetypal hippie couple of the late 1960's. |
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STUDENT PROTEST I was teaching photography and art at the secondary school level during the early Haight-Ashbury period. Down the hall from my classroom at Concord High School, some angry student, blew-up the toilet. I have always viewed toilet destruction as the "original" student protest. After seeing this photograph, the great Minor White wrote to me saying he wished he had made the photograph himself. |
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THE KISS In the Los Altos hills I was shooting a session with some medical students from Stanford and the Sexual Freedom League illustrating a Ken Kesey project. The basic premises was that the doctors spend all their time at school and in hospitals and are not exposed to real life in the real world. Kesey felt that they were losing their sensitivity. While wandering around, I came across this scene in a field of wild mustard flowers. This teenage couple seems to express the free love attitudes of the flower children from the Counter Culture of the 1960's. |
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SANDY ON THE TRAIN My friend Sandy was the "wild child" in my group in art school. She was the first person to try anything. She loved life. Sandy was a friend, model and fellow photographer. She is posed here trying to get away. Sandy got away. |