Haight and Ashbury Streets, San Francisco
Artist
Gene Anthony
(American, born about 1932)
Date1967
Mediumchromogenic print
Dimensionsimage: 44 x 29 cm (17 5/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
sheet: 50.7 x 40.6 cm (19 15/16 x 16 in.)
sheet: 50.7 x 40.6 cm (19 15/16 x 16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Howard G. Davis, III A.K.A. David Davis
Object number2011.126
Label TextIn the mid-1960s the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco became a counterculture epicenter. The neighborhood of old houses split into cheap apartments was ideal for student rent-sharers. Coffee houses and food co-ops appeared to accommodate them, along with boutiques, record and bookstores. A communal spirit developed as young people organized makeshift supportive families, unlike the prejudiced suburban homes they left behind. The amicable, permissive atmosphere was sustained by the widespread use of hallucinogenic drugs, then still legal.On View
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Gene Anthony
1966, printed 2008
Gene Anthony
January 14, 1967, printed 2008
Gene Anthony
January 14, 1967
