Woodstock 1969
I went to Woodstock in 1969 when I was 20 & took a few photographs. I returned home to the NJ suburbs, processed the film, filed the contact sheet, and promptly forgot about it. 56 years later, I looked at those shots & found this one. All my fond memories of those 3 magical days came flooding back!
About Artist
Robin Schwartz
Robin is a photographer who has been shooting female and male nudes in NYC, London, and New Jersey, where she and her husband currently live. In the early 1970s, after graduating from NYU with a BFA in Film & Television, she entered the predominantly male profession of photography. She hadn’t set out to do nudes, but a young model showed up at the doorstep of her Manhattan studio with a dilemma and a request. She had been selected to do a layout and cover for a major men’s magazine. However, the male photographer who was assigned to shoot it would only agree if she had sex with him. The model felt she would be “safe” with Robin, and a career of shooting nudes was born. After moving to London in 1977 and traveling and working throughout Europe, she was exposed to a much freer sensibility towards nudity and eroticism. She loved the work of Helmut Newton and Jeanloup Sieff, featuring high contrast black and white images. Robin sold her first print at a solo show called “Naughty Bits” in NYC.
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