Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone's First Staff Photographer, Dies At 83

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Baron Wolman's assignment for the very first issue of Rolling Stone was to photograph the Grateful Dead. The band hadn't heard of the magazine yet.

Baron Wolman, photographed on Aug. 2, 2011 in New York for the release of his bookBaron Wolman, the photographer whose images of Jimi Hendrix, Grace Slick and others captured the immediacy of rock culture and translated it to silent paper, died Monday following a battle withWolman was nearly 30 when, after time in Berlin including an assignment covering the newly raised Berlin Wall, he began a career as a photojournalist in San Francisco in the late 1960s.

Wolman had a knack for candid photographs; he could reveal a subject's spirit and character without formally posing them, or using elaborate lighting equipment. He caught some of the most intense images of Hendrix on stage – particularly from shows at the Fillmore West in 1968 and at Woodstock. Wolman also did several shoots in his Haight-Ashbury studio that showed the guitar genius lost in thought, or laughing. They remain among the most intimate glimpses of Hendrix we have.

The collective memory of Woodstock is, in part, derived from and sustained by Wolman's images. He captured everything he saw at the festival – he shot performers waiting to go on, in action on stage and hanging out backstage. He shot the

 

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Rip Mr Wolmam🙏. I💗RollingStone

RIP

good luck

Wow! I can’t wait to hear what happens next for this youth quake that’s happening right now in 1966

RIP Baron🙏🏽

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