FORTHCOMING

An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995

Text by Stuart Krimko, Blair Jackson.

This photo album contains 275 photographs of the iconic psychedelic rock band, taken by notable Grateful Dead photographers—Jay Blakesberg, Adrian Boot, Snooky Flowers, Greg Gaar, Andy Leonard, Rosie McGee, Ron Rakow, Jonathan David Sabin, Elizabeth Sunflower and Kirk West—who documented the Dead phenomenon from its early days at the peak of the Haight-Ashbury hippie renaissance through its rise as a stadium-filling, Top 10 cultural force. While portraits and performance images of the band became iconic symbols of the group’s visual identity, equally important are images of the Deadhead community itself.
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