![]() It was recorded in February 1970 and originally released on June 14, 1970. Drawing upon music, art, social and political counterculture history, we provide a space that bridges communities through social activism and artistic expression.Workingman's Dead is the fourth studio album (and fifth overall) by American rock band Grateful Dead. The Haight Street Art Center serves San Francisco’s thriving poster art and artist communities with education and cultural development programs, and exhibitions. “From the group's humble beginnings to its shows in football stadiums packed with dancing Dead Heads, the contours of the Grateful Dead story really come alive in new and exciting ways on the walls of the Haight Street Art Center.” “What a great trip it is to see the Dead's incredible journey told through so many rare or never published photographs, as well as iconic images by some of the best photographers who documented the Grateful Dead experience,” Jackson says. The photographs on display show the band on and off stage, and create a wonderful historical look at the band’s 30-year career.” Some of us started our careers photographing the Grateful Dead, myself included. "The Grateful Dead has always allowed fans to bring cameras into their concerts," Blakesberg says, "which has left us Dead Heads with a vast photographic history of this band. To tell these stories, Blakesberg dug deep into the Retro Photo Archive, curating almost 100 rarely seen images of the band alongside dozens of iconic images by visual chroniclers of the Dead, including Adrian Boot, Alvan Meyerowitz, Andy Leonard, Baron Wolman, Bob Minkin, Dave Seabury, Ed Perlstein, Elizabeth Sunflower, Greg Gaar, Herb Greene, Jonathan David Sabin, Mark Norwine, Mary Ann Mayer, Michael Dobo, Patti Healy, Ron Rakow, Rosie McGee, Snooky Flowers, and Susana Millman, as well as Blakesberg"s own work. ![]() “When combined with posters from the Art Center’s permanent collection, the exhibition poignantly tells the story of a Bay Area treasure that came of age during the golden age of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury.” “We are thrilled to collaborate with Jay to host this extraordinary collection of photographs that capture the musical and cultural journey through the Grateful Dead’s career,” said Kelly Harris, the Haight Street Art Center’s Executive Director. Rounding out the exhibition are a number of key rock posters from the Haight Street Art Center’s collection that show the evolving visual style of poster art that defined the three-decade career of the Grateful Dead, and still inspire poster artists to this day. ![]() Curated by acclaimed rock photographer Jay Blakesberg, with exhibition text by Grateful Dead historian Blair Jackson, “Between the Dark and Light” follows the Dead from the halcyon days of the Haight-Ashbury through the untimely death of its lead guitarist, Jerry Garcia, in 1995.Īlong the way, Blakesberg and Jackson take viewers to free concerts in Golden Gate Park, New Year’s Eve shows around the Bay Area, the October 1974 Winterland shows that were filmed for what would become The Grateful Dead Movie, the band’s legendary performances in Europe and Egypt, and their historic runs in 1980 at the Warfield in San Francisco and Radio City Music Hall in New York City, to name just a few.
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