Overview
A powerful nation locked in a long war they seemingly cannot win. Public belief in their government at an all-time low, and perhaps even a failed Presidency.Woodstock has come to mean all that, and more, and a new retrospective — written by someone who helped build the festival — is nothing if not timely.With never-before-seen photos that have been locked away for nearly four decades, Woodstock: A New Look is a book that people who were there will want to help them remember. Readers too young to have been there will want it to help them understand how we got from there to here. "Woodstock" has become a potent legend of freedom and empowerment, the likes of which we will probably never see again."The nearly half a million people who battled traffic, rain, mud and other hardships to attend discovered how strong they could be, and the event remains a testament to the power of music to educate and enlighten as well as to entertain." — John Gregory WalterSynopsis
A powerful nation locked in a long war they seemingly cannot win. Public belief in their government at an all-time low, and perhaps even a failed Presidency.
Woodstock has come to mean all that, and more, and a new retrospective — written by someone who helped build the festival — is nothing if not timely. With never-before-seen photos that have been locked away for nearly four decades, Woodstock: A New Look is a book that people who were there will want to help them remember. Readers too young to have been there will want it to help them understand how we got from there to here. "Woodstock" has become a potent legend of freedom and empowerment, the likes of which we will probably never see again. "The nearly half a million people who battled traffic, rain, mud and other hardships to attend discovered how strong they could be, and the event remains a testament to the power of music to educate and enlighten as well as to entertain." — John Gregory WalterPublishers Weekly
This early entry in the flood of books that will be celebrating the 40th anniversary next summer of the 1969 Woodstock music festival has the virtue of being straightforward. At age 18, Walter took many photos featured here while he worked as one of Woodstock's building crew, and his brief accompanying text too often displays a teenage simplicity ("Saturday was a lot of fun"). But Walter's basic "point and shoot" style—probably similar to photos taken by many in the festival's half-million audience—captures (perhaps unintentionally) the wet, slightly dazed look on teens and young adults awash in a sea of mud and garbage. The only thing missing is the smell.
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Editorials
Publishers Weekly
This early entry in the flood of books that will be celebrating the 40th anniversary next summer of the 1969 Woodstock music festival has the virtue of being straightforward. At age 18, Walter took many photos featured here while he worked as one of Woodstock's building crew, and his brief accompanying text too often displays a teenage simplicity ("Saturday was a lot of fun"). But Walter's basic "point and shoot" style—probably similar to photos taken by many in the festival's half-million audience—captures (perhaps unintentionally) the wet, slightly dazed look on teens and young adults awash in a sea of mud and garbage. The only thing missing is the smell.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.