Woodstock
Another great place to find unashamed men has been music festivals. We have to start with Woodstock in August, 1969. The Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 was earlier, but it was Woodstock that set the pattern for future events.
400,000 people showed up at a farm in Bethel, NY (Woodstock actually wasn't held in Woodstock, NY). Despite the crowding and shortages of food and sanitation, but possibly because of the abundance of drugs, there was no violence. It was a counterculture event, and hippies were there in abundance. There was a pond on the site, and like many later festivals, people just stripped naked to swim ... (Photo by LIFE photographer Bill Eppridge)
or play in the water ... (Photo by Burk Uzzle)
or wash. (Photo by LIFE photographer John Dominis)
And some attendees saw no need for clothes even away from the pond. This flower child was content with just some goldenrod and a necklace. (Photo by Burk Uzzle)
LIFE magazine published this photo of two attendees au naturel. (Photo by Bill Eppridge)
Nudity was so common that it became entirely unremarkable. This guy is attracting no attention at all. (Photo by Bill Eppridge)
And consider this guy standing naked in a dense crowd. He seems to be talking to a guy a few rows back. Nobody else is looking at him. (Photo by Tom Miner)
More unashamed festivals to come.
2 comments:
Those were great years when the gatherings were peaceful...but it was the height of the Vietnam war and we were all about peace and love. (What happened to the Flower Children that the generation is now the conservative portion of our nation?)
Glad we have that on tape
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