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	The Sixties: Photographs by Robert Altman Robert Altman Santa Monica Press, 2007 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Abbie Hoffman, Mick Jagger, Ken Kesey, and Grace Slick are among the iconic 1960s figures immortalized in pictures and commentary by this legendary photographer from Rolling Stone magazine's early heyday. An affectionate tribute that juxtaposes cooled-out hippies in Haight-Ashbury against history-making shots of huge rock concerts and peace marches, the book portrays the youth revolution in full swing and showcases the writers, musicians, movie stars, organizers, and political leaders that made it happen. Aside from some of the most recognizable photographs from the 1960s, many of the shots are rare or little-known, providing freshness and immediacy to a revealing overview of a tumultuous decade.

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Incredible

I was immediately taken back through time to the Sixties, The Bronx, the music, the bell-bottoms, and the long hair....Altman's photos are able to capture the spirit that was the 60's and makes you yearn for a return to that time....I love the book and would highly recommend it to anyone under the age of 90......or maybe under 100....a worthy book.

Belly Dance Hippie Heritage

When I look at The Sixties: Photographs by Robert Altman, I see exactly where I come from and feel full of hippie heritage pride. I'm not just speaking figuratively -- I'm talking literally, turn to page 23, and there I am, in utero - front and center. Maybe you won't see me without your ultrasound spectacles, but I see me immediately, because I've carried around a framed original print of this photo since I was a kid. I zero in on the beautiful, bare, slightly rounded, 6-month pregnant belly of my mother Rhea - but the true focus of the picture is on Mom belly dancing for a smiling outdoor crowd at the fiddler's convention, my sister Piper sitting astride her shoulders with arms outstretched. You don't see him in the picture but my dad, musician Phil Marsh, is playing the song "Little Egypt" for my mom with his band, the Pittsburgh Pirates. Without knowing it, Altman took my first family portrait. And that is only one of the many incredible & moving photographs in this book.

Robert Altman's electric, beautiful book is a gift to our current slickly-packaged, relatively disengaged, corporate, consumerist era. I don't just look at Robert Altman's photographs, I feel them, I am immersed in them -- hippies making music, dancing, thumbing their noses at authority, thinking outside the box, living authentically and according to their personal beliefs -- I see myself not just on page 23 but spiritually-speaking on every page: I was conceived in this era on a beach in a freethinking cloud of love, acid, pot and creative and political engagement. I managed to emerge from it all clear-headed and with wonderful hippie humanist values. Still, in many ways I've always felt out of place - a psychodelic flowerchild-bohemian-creative-artistic-expressive refugee soul - more a citizen of the swirling 60s cosmos than any nation. But in Robert Altman's world I feel completely at home. Buy the book: I think it will blow your mind.

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Looks directly into the heart of an era!

I've heard that if you lived through the 60's, you probably can't remember it. If you did live through it, I heartily recommend, The Sixties: Photographs by Robert Altman as a way to send those memories floating back like the smoke surrounding a Lava-Lamp.

In essence, this is a magnificent collection of photographs that capture the essence of an era. Don't miss out on those memories a second time -- buy this book!

A Geriatric Hippy Weighs In

Thank you Robert for bringing it all back in your wonder filled photographs. In a flash, I was back in Central Park, the Bronx, and the Bay Area remembering and sharing your pilgrimage. In a moment when so many attempt to recall that conversion of love and spirit your works shine with rich personality and a perceptive eye.
Shine On,
Alan Binstock

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Growing up in the 60s in San Francisco