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.

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.