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[email protected] Grace Slick, Woodstock Festival, Bethel, NY, 1969. Photo by ©Elliott Landy Exhibition News ELLIOTT LANDY: THE SPIRIT OF A GENERATION June 29 – September 2, 2019 Opening Reception & Lecture: Saturday, June 29 at 4pm The Center for Photography at Woodstock is pleased to announce the exhibition Elliott Landy: The Spirit of a Generation featuring Elliott Landy and his seminal photographs from the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969. As the official photographer of the festival, Landy documented the spirit of music, freedom and abandon that permeated the festival. The exhibition was guest curated by Charles Guice. In addition to featuring Landy’s iconic pho- tographs from the festival, the exhibition also showcases the political climate of the 1960s with photographs contrasting nationwide demonstrations for peace and abortion rights with the bucolic setting of musicians like Bob Dylan and The Band, who had come to live in Woodstock. The festival, which swelled from the anticipated 50,000 attendees to a record-setting 450,000, took place in Bethel, NY, on August 15-18, 1969 and drew iconic performers such as Joan Baez, Richie Havens, the Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and The Band. Shooting 76 rolls of film, Landy captured the festival from the empty fields as the stage was being built to the unforgettable cultural spectacle that after 50 years still remains unmatched in its societal resonance and impact. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Best known for his iconic rock photographs from the 1960s, ELLIOTT LANDY was one of the first music photographers to be recognized as an “artist”.