Landy, Elliott

Born in 1942, Elliott Landy began photographing the anti-Vietnam war movement and the undergound music culture in New York City in 1967. He photographed many of the underground rock and roll superstars, both backstage and onstage, from 1967 to 69. His images of Bob Dylan and The Band, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Joan Baez, Van Morrison, Richie Havens, and many others documented the music scene during that classic rock and roll period which culminated with the 1969 Woodstock Festival, of which he was the official photogapher. After that, Elliott moved on to other inspirations and forms, photographing his own children and travels, doing motion and kaleidoscopic photography in both still and film formats. His photographs have been published worldwide for many years in all pint mediums including covers of Rolling Stone, Life, the Saturday Evening Post, etc. and album covers, calendars, photographic book collections, etc.