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George C. Cox     Walt Whitman, New York     1887

This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”  Walt Whitman, “This Is What You Shall Do” from the Preface to 1855 edition of “Leaves of Grass"  

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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (l-r - Billy Davenport, Mike Bloomfield, Mark Naftalin, Paul Butterfield, Jerome Arnold, Elvin Bishop), Chicago Uncredited and Undated Photograph

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Melvin Sokolsky Chet Baker and Wally Coover, New York City 1959

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Uncredited Photographer Richard Sohl and Lenny Kaye Backing Up Patti Smith, Max's Kansas City, New York City 1974

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Nigel Parry     Chris Rock     Undated

“People are starving all over the world, what do you mean, ‘red meat will kill you’? Don’t eat no red meat? No, don’t eat no green meat … if you’re one of the chosen few people in the world lucky enough to get your hands on a steak, bite the shit out of it!…We got so much food in America we’re allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain’t allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda’s got a fucking lactose intolerance?” Chris Rock, from “Bring the Pain”  1996

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Jill Krementz Susan Sontag 1974

"I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them." Susan Sontag, Interview with Leslie Garis, the New York Times 1992

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Members of the original cast of "Hair" on May 2, 1968: Melba Moore, Diane Keaton, Hiram Keller, Ronald Dyson, James Rado, Lynn Kellogg and Gerome Ragni.

Photos by Richard Avedon

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Eartha Kitt photographed by Ernest E. Reshovsky, 1962.

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1970s Soul Train Moments

Ike & Tina Turner - aired: April 22, 1972 

The Sylvers - aired: September 22, 1973 

The Jackson 5 - aired: October 27, 1973

Marvin Gaye - aired: February 16, 1974

Sylvia Robinson and The Moments - aired: May 11, 1974

Billy Preston - aired: September 7, 1974 

LaBelle - aired: December 7, 1974 

Chaka Khan - aired: February 15, 1975

BB King, James Brown and Bobby “Blue” Bland - aired: March 15, 1975

Donna Summer - aired: March 20, 1976 

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Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Gerard Malanga and Barbara Rubin photographed by Nat Finkelstein at the Factory, January 1966.

Barbara Rubin brought Bob Dylan to Andy Warhol's Factory to be the subject of one of Warhol's screen tests. After filming, Warhol gave Dylan a "Double Elvis" (1963) silkscreen painting, which he brought home on top of his station wagon. Dylan regrettably later exchanged the painting for a couch.

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Mick Jagger with Andy Warhol's boyfriend Jed Johnson at Warhol's Montauk estate Eothen, 1976.

Photos by Andy Warhol

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Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, and Brian Jones at a reception for The Supremes on King's Road in London, January 1968.

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The Nat King Cole Trio photographed by Herman Leonard in New York, 1949.   

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Andy Warhol photographed by Hervé Gloaguen at the Factory in New York City, 1966.

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Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick photographed by Nat Finkelstein, 1966.

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Nina Simone at a press reception for Philips Records at Stanhope Place in London on July 14, 1966.

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed by Andy Warhol, 1972.