Old New York

O’Rourke’s Bar, Brooklyn, c.1960.

...You fasten all the triggers For the others to fire Then you sit back and watch When the death count gets higher You hide in your mansion While the young people's blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud...

Photo: Gordon Parks

New York City, 1965. Joel Meyerowitz. Gelatin silver print.

Grandassa model Pat Bardonelle during the Garvey Day Parade, Kwame Brathwaite, August 17, 1968

A billboard with the anti-war Christmas message, inspired by the movement against the Vietnam war, from John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Times Square next to a US Marine Corps recruitment office, 1969.

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Photo: Ernest Cole

Stephen Salmieri. Coney Island, 1969

Janis Joplin standing in a fur hat at the office of Columbia Records in New York, NY on February 19, 1968. Photographed by John Byrne Cooke.

Gelatin silver print

Village Voice, 12/25/1969

Frank Zappa at Cafe Au Go Go

Please don’t go in, Janis! - Janis Joplin in front of the Chelsea Hotel in New York, a place infamous for heavy drug abuse

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