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At the height of the counterculture revolution of the mid-sixties, San Francisco was the epicenter of music, psychedelic drugs, and free love. Photographer Irving Penn was interested in documenting this phenomenon and was assigned by Look magazine to photograph two of the leading rock bands of the era—Janis Joplin (far left) with Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Jerry Garcia (top right) with the Grateful Dead. Joplin was described as “the most staggering leading woman in rock,” while Garcia— the lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the Grateful Dead—was best known for his extended guitar improvisations. Joplin died of a drug over- dose in 1970, while Garcia and the Grateful Dead conducted an “endless tour” until his death in 1995.
Irving Penn (1917–2009)
En el apogeo de la revolución contracultural a mediados de los años sesenta, San Francisco era el epicentro de la música, las drogas psicodélicas y el amor libre. El fotógrafo Irving Penn se interesó en documentar este fenómeno y la revista Look le asignó retratar a dos de las principales bandas de rock de la época: Janis Joplin (extrema izquierda) con Big Brother and the Holding Company y Jerry Garcia (arriba a la derecha) con los Grateful Dead. Joplin había sido descrita como “la más sensacional vocalista femenina del rock”, mientras que Garcia, compositor y guitarrista principal de los Grateful Dead, era famoso por sus largas improvisaciones. Joplin murió de una sobredosis de drogas en 1970; Garcia y los Grateful Dead continuaron una “gira sin fin” hasta su muerte en 1995.
