#Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968
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Linda, Straight Theater, 1968. photo by Elaine Mayes
(photo via: Life in the Haight, 67-68. (Damiani, 2022) @arcanabooks)
The Eve of the Summer of Love - Elaine Mayes on Her Haight ...
#Elaine Mayes#Linda Straight Theater 1968#Haight Ashbury Portraits#Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968#Books#Photo Books
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Elaine Mayes: Summer of Love a period of great social, cultural, and political change that brought together over 100,000 like-minded young people to San Francisco to usher in a new era.
The exhibition will feature Mayes’ intimate vintage black and white portraits of youth counterculture in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district during the late 1960’s. The photographs are compelling depictions that are at once specific to the individuals pictured, as well as definers of that age and era. They reveal a freedom of expression and camaraderie that was shared by a generation at odds with its current social ideals. Together with these images will be informal portraits of musicians and festivalgoers.
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Photos from 'Elaine Mayes: The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968' on view now at @deborahbellphotographs and published by @damiani_books If you're in NYC today, January 21 at 3 PM, please join the photographer and editor Kevin Moore for a discussion of the exhibition and book, followed by a reception and book signing. If you are unable to attend in person, the event will be recorded and available later for viewing via the gallery. Deborah Bell Photographs 526 West 26th Street, Room 411 New York, NY 10001 Phone: 212.249.9400 Email: [email protected] #elainemayes @elainemayesphoto @fultonstreet #haightashbury https://www.instagram.com/p/CnsGBbyJdM7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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BOOK REVIEW: HAIGHT-ASHBURY PORTRAITS 1967-1968 by Elaine Mayes (2022)
HAIGHT-ASHBURY features more than 40 black & white portrait photographs capturing a distinct district of San Francisco, California at the HEIGHT of hippiness; that’s the height (and length) of hairstyles, beads and beards. 1967 intersecting with 1968 giving us peace, love and understanding. Then, flower-people didn’t find such values funny, although outsiders likely did.
But these are seriously good slices of artwork, and there’s even a neat selfie of the author back in ‘67 with other, select individuals and couples made part of a youth culture that began with Monterey Pop Festival and ended at Woodstock / troop exit of Vietnam.
Among torn wall posters and tatty US flags - two of my particular favourites are, RUTH MURPHY, 18 AUGUST 1968 on page 47 and TWO WOMEN FROM ATLANTA ON HAIGHT STREET, STOOP (1968) on page 83.
So, Flower “Pot” Men & Women, what happened to your American Dream?
Rating: 9/10
Out September / October 2022 and available to buy from DAMIANI here: https://www.damianieditore.com/en-US/product/836
Mark Watkins, Dare radio, 30 September, 2022.
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TOMORROW, Saturday, January 21 at 3 PM, @deborahbellphotographs presents a conversation with photographer Elaine Mayes and editor Kevin Moore about the exhibition and @damiani_books publication, 'The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968.' Reception and book signing to follow. Deborah Bell Photographs 526 West 26th Street, Room 411 New York, NY 10001 Phone: 212.249.9400 Email: [email protected] #elainemayes @elainemayesphoto @fultonstreet #haightashbury https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpdaNDJRTV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Thanks to @photoeyebooks for this selection of images from ‘Elaine Mayes — The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968’ Elaine Mayes was a young photographer living in San Francisco’s lively Haight-Ashbury District during the 1960s. She had photographed the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and, later that year, during the waning days of the Summer of Love, embarked on a set of portraits of youth culture in her neighborhood. By that time, the hippie movement had turned from euphoria to harder drugs, and the Haight had become less of a blissed-out haven for young people seeking a better way of life than a halfway house for runaway teens. Realizing the gravity of the cultural moment, Mayes shifted from the photojournalistic approach she had applied to musicians and concert-goers in Monterey to making formal portraits of people she met on the street. Mayes’ familiarity with her subjects helped her to evade mediatized stereotypes of hippies, presenting instead an understated and unsentimental group portrait of the individual inventors of a fleeting cultural moment. New Arrival, available through the @photoeyebooks instashop ✨ #Repost・・・ @elainemayesphoto @damiani_books #photobookjousting #haightashbury https://www.instagram.com/p/CnmRM7ruv19/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Nine! Nine of Airmail's Best Coffee-Table Books of 2022 are on our list, and very well chosen at that! @airmailweekly writes: "This year’s best coffee-table books span time and subject but share an eye toward quality, design, and a depth of content that warrants their heft." Congrats to all involved in: Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971 @delmonico_books & @academymuseum The Unseen Saul Leiter D.A.P. @artbook Hilma af Klint: The Complete Catalogue Raisonné @bokforlagetstolpe @pattieboydofficial My Life in Pictures @reelartpress Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse @delmonico_books & @lacma Piet Mondrian: A Life @ridinghousebooks @elainemayesphoto The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968 @damiani_books @77hunter A World Away @reelartpress Aldo Rossi: Design 1960–1997 @silvanaeditoriale #holidaygiftbook #bestcoffeetablebooks2022 #holidaygiftbook2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/CmXD4TBpEN9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Whatever Vince says, we agree! The list is live! Writer and curator Vince Aletti outlines his ultimate list of the Top Ten Photobooks of 2022, featuring a range of publications—from photographers' first books to all-encompassing retrospectives—and why they are unmissable. Congrats @elainemayesphoto & @damiani_books 'Elaine Mayes: The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968' Edited with text by Kevin Moore @fultonstreet @deborahbellphotographs @elainemayesphoto @alexandrafanning_pr @fotofocuscincinnati @culturalcounsel @wolfgang tillmans & @themuseumofmodernart Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear Edited with text by @roxanamarcoci Text by Quentin Bajac, @yvealainbois @juliaqbw1 @clement_cheroux @durgapolashi @stuartcomer Keller Easterling, Paul Flynn, Sophie Hackett, Michelle Kuo, @oluremi.onabanjo @i_phil_taylor & @wolfgang_tillmans Chronology by Phil Taylor & Andrew Vielkind. @vincealetti #vincealettibestbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPsgjfpM0X/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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If you want to see some of the coolest new photographs to surface this year and read about them by one of our favorite writers on photography, please click on linkinbio! @missroseneditions reviews 'Elaine Mayes: The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968' — published by @damiani_books — for @i_d "Elaine came to realize that the Summer of Love and the radical transformation of the Haight was driven by media-constructed narratives. Rather than follow the story-driven approach of photojournalism, she began making documentary portraits of the people she encountered on the street with the same curiosity, tenderness, intimacy, and respect that Diane Arbus brought to street portraiture. After posing for the long exposure, sitters were invited to caption their pictures and sign a release form, which everyone did, with the exception of a few draft dodgers." Edited with text by Kevin Moore @fultonstreet @deborahbellphotographs @elainemayesphoto @alexandrafanning_pr @fotofocuscincinnati @culturalcounsel #elainemayes #elainemayeshaightashbury #haightashbury https://www.instagram.com/p/CmKf0dbJCVw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Photos from 'Elaine Mayes: The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968,' launching tonight, Thursday, November 17, from 6–8 PM, at @deborahbellphotographs Mayes (born 1936) was a young photographer living in San Francisco’s lively Haight-Ashbury District during the 1960s. She had photographed the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and, later that year, during the waning days of the Summer of Love, embarked on a set of portraits of youth culture in her neighborhood. By that time, the hippie movement had turned from euphoria to harder drugs, and the Haight had become less of a blissed-out haven for young people seeking a better way of life than a halfway house for runaway teens. Realizing the gravity of the cultural moment, Mayes shifted from the photojournalistic approach she had applied to musicians and concert-goers in Monterey to making formal portraits of people she met on the street. Choosing casual, familiar settings such as stoops, doorways, parks and interiors, Mayes instructed her subjects to look into her square-format camera, to concentrate and be still: she made her exposures as they exhaled. Mayes’ familiarity with her subjects helped her to evade mediatized stereotypes of hippies, presenting instead an understated and unsentimental group portrait of the individual inventors of a fleeting cultural moment. 'Elaine Mayes: The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968' is the first monograph on this work. Published by @damiani_books Edited with text by Kevin Moore @fultonstreet More information via linkinbio. Deborah Bell Photographs Elaine Mayes book signing Thursday, November 17: 6–8 PM 526 West 26th Street, Room 411 New York, NY 10001 Phone: 212.249.9400 Email: [email protected] @deborahbellphotographs @elainemayesphoto @alexandrafanning_pr @fotofocuscincinnati @culturalcounsel #elainemayes #elainemayeshaightashbury #haightashbury https://www.instagram.com/p/ClEdMZop65d/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Can't say we disagree. Congrats to the publishers and photographers on the @esquire Best Photo Books of Fall 2022 list! The Unseen Saul Leiter published by D.A.P. (@artbook) @mitch_epstein Recreation published by @steidlverlag Gordon Parks: Stokely Carmichael and Black Power published by @steidlverlag & @gordonparksfoundation @elainemayesphoto The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968 published by @damiani_books Read more via linkinbio. #saulleiter #gordonparks #stokelycarmichael #blackpower #mitchepstein #elainemayes https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj8W5sQJ04J/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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