Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music
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The official 50th-anniversary book on the festival that epitomizes the 60s This is the official 50th-anniversary celebration of Woodstock by the festivals co-creator and co-founder Michael Lang. A large illustrated edition it includes hundreds of photographs and documents accompanied by Langs fascinating memories and insights into the most famous and influential festival of all time with images of Jimi Hendrix The Who Crosby Stills Nash & Young Richie Havens Creedence Clearwater Revival Santana Janis Joplin Joan Baez Country Joe McDonald and the Grateful Dead. The ephemera from Langs largely unseen archive include the original designs and plans for the event correspondence set-lists information on artists fees and much more. This wealth of information is accompanied by the best photographs of the event by famous and unknown photographers such as Ralph Ackerman John Dominis Bill Eppridge Dan Garson Barry Z. Levine Elliott Landy Lee Marshall and Baron Wolman and notably featuring the archive of Henry Diltz. Diltz was the only official photographer at Woodstock and was there for two weeks from an empty field of cows to first construction crowds arriving and the aftermath. He also captured onstage performances and behind-the-scenes moments with the many artists involved. Woodstock is an exuberant volume that conveys the vision hard work and elusive magic that made up "three days of peace and music."
