Art Dealer Diaries Podcast

Baron Wolman: Photographer for Rolling Stone, Woodstock - Epi. 63, Host Dr. Mark Sublette

August 21, 2019 Mark Sublette Season 1 Episode 63
Art Dealer Diaries Podcast
Baron Wolman: Photographer for Rolling Stone, Woodstock - Epi. 63, Host Dr. Mark Sublette
Show Notes

Celebrate Woodstock's 50th anniversary with legendary Rolling Stone and Rock n' Roll photographer Baron Wolman in this intimate interview with host Dr. Mark Sublette. Baron's journey from his teenage years, crossing police lines and eventually into a stint of espionage on behalf of the US government in East Berlin. His life-changing moment comes after meeting twenty-one-year-old Jann Wenner founder of the Rolling Stone Magazine and becoming their first photographer and working as the chief photographer for Rolling Stone Magazine at THE WOODSTOCK MUSIC & ART FAIR 1969. Baron Wolman shares stories of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and other greats in the 1960 and 1970's rock world he lived. Pioneering aerial photography, the Oakland Raiders, F1 Racing and the rise of the American counterculture are all discussed in this extended episode. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the grooviest episode of The Art Dealer Diaries to date.