When he died on January 22, Charles Daniels left behind a trove of 90,000 images. For decades they sat undeveloped, inside canisters that were stored in zip lock bags at his Somerville home. During the last years of Daniels’ life, thousands were developed with support from a small army of friends.
In the late 1960s and early 70s, Charles Daniels — a.k.a. the Master Blaster — enjoyed a rarefied vantage point as the debonair emcee at The Tea Party. That legendary concert venue's two locations hosted a parade of rising musicians — Pete Townsend, Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, Frank Zappa, Peter Wolf — and Daniels always had a camera in his hands. Over the years he took rolls of candid shots in Boston, and beyond, that are like rock history time capsules.
Daniels picked up photography as a kid. He grew up in rural Alabama where his family picked cotton by day and ran a speakeasy at night. Then Daniels’ family moved to Boston, where he found his first camera and taught himself how to use it. He went on to wander the streets, creating a visual diary of whatever caught his eye.
The outpouring was affirmation for who Daniels, who remained active in the local art scene and stayed connected with friends from his days at the Tea Party and WBCN. The GoFundMe affirmed who he was to the community. “The mysteriousness of these undeveloped canisters of film captivates people's imagination,” she said, “And so to unveil some of those images a way to thank all the people who participated in raising the funds to preserve this legacy.”
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