Woodstock
Artist
John Dominis
(American, born 1921)
Publisherpublished by
Life Magazine
Date1969
Mediumchromogenic print
Dimensions30.9 x 45.7 cm (image), 40.6 x 50.5 cm (sheet)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Howard G. Davis, III A.K.A. David Davis
Object number2014.1234
Label TextDominis was a seasoned photojournalist and "Life" magazine photographer who attended Woodstock for its interest as a news story. His photographs reveal the absurd excesses of the festival and the challenges of nature. “I liked the music okay,” he later recalled, “but I really liked the kids, and what they were doing, and how they felt about it all. I just wanted to capture that.” One of Dominis’s best known images represents a group huddling under a sheet of cardboard in the rain, published in "Life" on August 29, 1969.On View
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