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Herb Greene Dies: Photographer Who Chronicled The San Francisco Rock Scene Of Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead & Janis Joplin Was 82
Herb Greene, whose photographs of the Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and The Grateful Dead captured the San Francisco '60s rock scene, died March 3.
Herb Greene, whose iconic photographs of the San Francisco rock scene of the 1960s captured the era’s superstars – Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, among others – in their prime, died Monday, March 3, at his home in Maynard, Massachusetts, following a long illness. After high school he attended San Francisco State University but left college for a job as staff photographer at the city’s high-end department store Joseph Magnin, where he took pictures of the fashions of the day including bell bottoms and miniskirts. In addition to the Summer of Love’s core groups – the Dead, the Airplane, Joplin’s Big Brother and the Holding Company – Greene would go on to photograph such classic rock greats as Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, Jeff Beck, The Pointer Sisters, Carlos Santana and Sly Stone.
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