Elliott Landy was born in 1942 and is an American writer and photographer. Elliott Landy is best known for the iconic photos he took during the Sixties Classic rock period. He was also one of the first musicians photographers to be called an “artist”.
Table of Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Woodstock Vision: The Spirit of a Generation: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival
- 1.2 Woodstock – A Spiritual Moment in Time: Photographs of the 1969 festival with essays from a spiritual perspective
- 1.3 Elliott Landy's Jimi Hendrix: Favorite Photos with a story by Al Aronowitz
- 1.4 Woodstock Dream
- 1.5 Elliott Landy's Woodstock Vision: The Spirit of a Generation
- 1.6 Woodstock 1969 the first festival by Elliott Landy (2009-04-27)
- 1.7 The Band Photographs 1968-1969
- 1.8 Woodstock 1969 : The First Festival : 3 Days of Peace & Music : A Photo Commemorative
- 1.9 Woodstock Dream (MOTTA)
- 1.10 Woodstock Vision.
Biography
A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and The Baruch College of the City University of New York he began his photographic career working with Underground newspapers to express his own ‘visual voice” in support of the rising tide of anti-war sentiment throughout the United States during the late 1960s.
He was granted access to the politics through his press pass, which also gave him access into the rock music counter-culture. Albert Grossman who managed the careers of many of the most popular and successful performers of folk and rock music including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Peter, Paul and Mary, Richie Havens and The Band had seen Elliott’s images of Janis Joplin and invited him to photograph The Band, Those photographs were used on the Music From Big Pink album. During this time, he met Bob Dylan and his photo of him appeared on the cover of the September ’68 edition of the Saturday Evening Post.
Within the next few years his celebrated images included portraits of Bob Dylan (Nashville Skyline), The Band (Music From Big Pink), Janis Joplin (Big Brother & The Holding Company: Cheap Thrills), Van Morrison (Moondance), Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Joan Baez, Eric Clapton, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Frank Zappa, John Lee Hooker and many others.
His iconic photographs of Dylan and The Band during the years they resided and recorded in the small arts colony of Woodstock, NY and his coverage of the 1969 Woodstock Festival captured the attention of a new generation seeking spiritual and artistic freedom. His images have become synonymous with Woodstock, its 1969 Music Festival fame and the utopian spirit of Woodstock Generation.
Since 1967 Elliott’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide and published on the covers of major US and international magazines and newspapers including the New York Times, Life, Rolling Stone and the Saturday Evening Post.
Magnum Photos and Getty represent him worldwide.
His 8 books include The Band Photographs 1968-1969, his most funded Kickstarter book.
Landy directed and produced an award-winning video in 1990. It was called “Table Manners for Everyday Use”.
He started a website and syndication column in 1997 to promote positive films that would affirm life and movies with strong, loving and accomplished women as their protagonists. The website still exists but has been in hiatus since 1998. UpliftingFilms.com
He has created a new interactive music and video App, LandyVision, which lets the user blend still and video imagery with music to create a new form of musical and visual experience. The app will launch in the second half of 2018.
Landy has been observing metaphysical phenomena for many years and now offers the “Sharing Stillness Meditations”. These meditations transmit a non-physical spiritual energy which allows one to reach deep meditation. SharingStillness.com
His latest work includes:
Throughout Landy’s life and career he has photographed what he found beautiful in his own life–counterculture music, nature, family, his children!!-and continues to create images that reflect purity, innocence and “…non-attachment to perceived normal reality.” His work a vision of hope and opportunity for life.
Landy lives in Woodstock, New York, with his wife, Lynda.
Last update 2021-08-06