The Woodstock Story Book

For three world-famous days in August 1969, 500,000 people spontaneously gathered for a happening like nothing before or since. Peace and love, aromatic smoke and the sounds of the greatest rock n roll show wafted through the air to become the legendary event that?s never been duplicated. Forty years later, Woodstock is still celebrated for the spirit it represents.

As part of the Academy Award-winning ?Woodstock? documentary team, still photographer Barry Z Levine captured it all. Arriving days before the crowd, when the site was still a grassy cow pasture and continuing to photograph long after the last of them had departed, when it had become a debris strew mud hole, Levine took so many pictures that he had blisters on his index finger and thumb from clicking the shutter and advancing the film. Over the course of that tumultuous week, the only time he stopped was for a 45-minute nap on the piano cover on stage during the Blood, Sweat & Tears performance.

Nearly 300 of Levine?s full color photographs, many never-before-seen, are together for the first time in his new book, The Woodstock Story Book. With text written by Linanne G. Sackett that resonates with the humor and charm of Dr. Seuss, the book presents a chronological account of the event and captures the performers, personalities, audience, excitement, mood, and action from the beginning?the conversion of Max Yasgur?s cow pasture into the world famous iconic site all the way through three days of fun, sun, and storms?to the muddy, garbage strewn aftermath.

"The Woodstock Story Book" contains many exceptional, never-before-seen photographs of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, the Who, Joe Cocker, Jefferson Airplane, Joan Baez, The Band, Sly and the Family Stone, John Sebastian, Ten Years After, The Incredible String Band, Tim Hardin, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and many more captured through the lens of a festival insider.

CONTENIDO:

Foreword by EWavy Gravy
The Woodstock Festival, only three days
Afterword by Barry Z. Levine