Friday, June 29, 2007

Baron Wolman: An Interview with Rolling Stone's First Chief Photographer











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In early 1967, Baron Wolman was a freelance
photographer living in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, a
few doors down from Janis Joplin and just around the corner from
the Grateful Dead. Wolman was passionate about rock and roll �
just like a young journalist and Berkeley dropout named Jann
Wenner, whom Wolman met in April, 1967 at a Rock and Roll symposium
at Mills College. "After the conference, Jann told me his idea for
a magazine....



Source: http://www.rollingstone.com

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