See Baron Wolman's photos of classic rock icons — including Hendrix, the Who, Little Richard — featured in his new book
“When I took them, I had no sense of the historical value,” Wolman explains. “I knew they were good pictures at the moment, but I didn’t know that these pictures would still be around. I had no sense of the fact that it was a window into a very important time in our country’s social history. Things were changing. People’s minds were changing. People’s attitudes were changing.
”compiles his work from that time with stories that he began telling on Instagram — an app that Wolman calls “the most significant visual social media vehicle in existence right now.” Although he joined late in the game, Wolman quickly gained thousands of followers, adding extensive captions to photos of rock stars that gave detailed background information. “You know Instagram, there’s not much dialogue,” he says. “There’s a bunch of likes but people don’t often comment about the picture.
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