Item #39165 California Trip. Dennis STOCK.
California Trip.
California Trip.
California Trip.
California Trip.
California Trip.
California Trip.
California Trip.

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California Trip.

NY: Grossman Publishers, 1970. First edition, softcover issue. Oblong folio. Prints 99 b/w reproductions of Magnum photographer Dennis Stock's images taken during his 1968 road trip in which he documented California's youth culture and the nascent communal living movement. In the preface he writes that "Technological and spiritual quests vibrate throughout the state, intermingling, often creating the ethereal."

Following in the tradition of Robert Frank, his work also reveals the state's edgier flip side: one night shot shows a lone young woman selling copies of the Los Angeles Free Press on Sunset Strip, her dark mascara eyes staring out at the passing traffic; another portrays Anton La Vey, High Priest of the Church of Satan, posing in front of a pentagram and a human skull.

Short lower right corner crease to front cover; short upper right corner crease to back cover; wrappers slightly rubbed; small pink stamp to fore-edge; overall, a Very Good plus copy of this classic work of American photography.

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