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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=

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=

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=

I just had a VISITOR! This was drawn by. @anncohen1127 at the Haight Street Fair while I was dancing with the @barrymelton47 band. She had it printed on a box frame, so I can put it on the bookcase. Annie does live drawing of many bands and her art exemplifies Joy in art and music. Go look at her page. We had coffee and ignored Ares the Dog who was being needy because NEW PERSON in his little flock. . #livedrawing #drawingthemusic #bluehairdontcare #haightstreetfair #haightashbury #iamarockstar #friends https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm7M-PfP4l5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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=

Haight Ashbury by dalecruse https://flic.kr/p/2o4pKra

Haight Ashbury by dalecruse https://flic.kr/p/2o3ZEe2