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Mr. Wolman s view of the women as style icons comes into sharp focus thanks to a new coffee-table book, Groupies and Other Electric Ladies. It collects his published portraits along with outtakes, contact sheets, the original articles from the issue and new essays that put the subjects into a modern context. The thick paper stock and oversize format emphasizes Mr. Wolman s view of the groupies as pioneers in hippie frippery.--Jim Farber New York Times, November 11, 2015

Mr. Wolman's view of the women as style icons comes into sharp focus thanks to a new coffee-table book, Groupies and Other Electric Ladies. It collects his published portraits along with outtakes, contact sheets, the original articles from the issue and new essays that put the subjects into a modern context. The thick paper stock and oversize format emphasizes Mr. Wolman's view of the groupies as pioneers in hippie frippery. -- Jim Farber New York Times, November 11, 2015 'Groupies' can be understood as an unapologetic celebration of how a coterie of self-liberated women ultimately chose to explore that complex, ancient ideato see what happens when a person comes at beauty with beauty, when she gives herself over, entirely, to an abstraction. -- Amanda Petrusich The New Yorker, December 29, 015

'Groupies' can be understood as an unapologetic celebration of how a coterie of self-liberated women ultimately chose to explore that complex, ancient idea to see what happens when a person comes at beauty with beauty, when she gives herself over, entirely, to an abstraction.--Amanda Petrusich The New Yorker, December 29, 015

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Baron Wolman began the music phase of his photographic career in 1967, as the very first photographer for the new Rolling Stone magazine. He went on to capture the 60s pop rock explosion, including: Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan amongst many more. ""I see myself as a kind of voyeur ... I'm happiest when I'm invisible and watching. I just love to watch. I'm a chameleon and can adapt myself to the situation, and that, to me, is one of the gifts that I was given naturally, and that's how you get honest pictures.""

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