Category Archives: photographers
Boyd Lewis
Bill Hardin
Arlo
We’ve just met Arlo, as he wishes to be known. He was also on The Strip when it was aborning. But he had a good camera and knew how to use it. He has the only known picture of Middle Earth Headshop as well as the best pictures from July 7, 1969 when The Grateful Dead played a surprise concert in Piedmont Park with several bands that had played the just finished Atlanta Pop Festival.
Tom Coffin
Tom Coffin was among the founders of The Great Speckled Bird. He was also a photographer on the scene in the early days.
Carter Tomassi
Carter Tomassi joined the Great Speckled Bird as a photographer simply because since he first arrived in Atlanta he had been on the scene taking pictures of everything. And Carter was a very good photographer. Jan Jackson was an Earth Mother I first met at Oxford College. She moved to Atlanta where she and husband Tom Jones moved into what they helped become The Zoo on 8th at Penn. She befriended Carter at Piedmont Park one Mescaline Sunday and he became a fixture at The Zoo and concerts.
Now Carter maintains a website to show his pictures of Atlanta’s hip community and musical events. His pictures of Byron Pop Festival are the best.
Here is his site www.messyoptics.com
Drop by, say hello from The Strip project and enjoy the views.
Bill Fibben
Bill Fibben was the photographer of the hip community since his days at the Atlanta School of Art. He was the hippie beat photographer for The Great Speckled Bird because he and wife Linda had been among the first Atlanta bohemians to transform into hippies. Bill was truly everybody’s friend.