In 1971, Glastonbury welcomed 12,000 revelers, for free. Photographer Paul Misso captured the magic but his photos remained hidden until now.
— The countdown to this weekend’s Glastonbury Festival is on; the stages are built, headliners are on their way and some 200,000 people are expected to attend. Now a global juggernaut, the festival has changed unrecognizably since the summer solstice of 1971 when the first Glastonbury Fair, as it was then known , opened its gate — singular — and 12,000 revelers paid nothing at all to see acts including David Bowie and Fairport Convention.
” Then, someone in his local photo lab helped turn the print images into large, digital files that were, in Misso’s words, “marketable.” But the selling side of things was a challenge for Misso. The pictures sat on the lab’s computer until one of the staff offered to “show them around.” Within a couple of weeks the photographer had a publisher at IDEA Books.
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