LOS ANGELES, CA.- In 1967, Baron Wolman became Rolling Stone Magazine’s first staff photographer after a fortuitous meeting with the 21-year-old founder, Jann Wenner. Baron went on to have a prolific music photography career shooting the greatest music legends of our time. After a successful career spanning over 30 years Baron Wolman is premiering his exhibition “Baron Wolman: The Woodstock Years” at Mr Musichead Gallery on Saturday, August 13th. Co-hosted by legendary rock & roll groupie and author, Pamela Des Barres; a portion of the proceeds will go to benefit the Silverlake Conservatory of Music which is a non-profit organization that facilitates dynamic music education programs.

During those early Rock journalism days, the photographers were granted virtually unlimited access to their subjects. In Wolman's case, the result was a revealing, behind the scenes look, which included studio photographs of Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Jim Morrison and many more. These images have become transcendent, timeless pieces that reverberate through the decades.

“Baron Wolman: The Woodstock Years” features original photographs of Woodstock 1969 and a curated selection of images from Wolman’s Rolling Stone Magazine music archive. The centerpiece of this landmark showing is a colossal 6 foot x 10 foot photographic print titled "300,000 Strong." It is an awe inspiring image taken from the stage looking out at the crowd massed on the hill taking in the spectacle that was The Woodstock Music Festival, in August, 1969. The exhibition also features an original print of Janis Joplin taken at Spaulding Taylor’s house in San Francisco in 1968 which is a rare image of the young artist and first time to be displayed to the public.

"Woodstock showed the world how things could have been and for this reason it's important that we never forget this experience, this place, this time, this dream that came true..." - Baron Wolman

Celebrating the 47th Anniversary of that cultural milestone while presenting a retrospective of Wolman's fascinating career, the display will give attendees an indelible impression of the importance of that special era. Woodstock was the culmination of a decade that saw music parallel the transformation of American society. Beginning in 1967 as Rolling Stone Magazine's first chief staff photographer, he along with founding editor Ralph Gleason and a cast of brilliant columnists gave us not just a glimpse but the real inside story behind the music and the musicians who composed, recorded, and performed the soundtrack of of a generation.

With the world today grasping for it's truth and conscience, it seems fitting to reflect back and reference a time and place where, at least for three days of Peace, Love, & Music, people of all ages, skin color, and religions got together as just brothers and sisters to enjoy the one universal element they could all agree on: Music as a message of solidarity.