#bob fitch

[chapelshill]

Joan Baez and David Harris at Struggle Mountain, photographed by Bob Fitch ♡

[forever70s]

Coretta Scott King in April 1968; photo by Bob Fitch (via Black Archives)

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joan Baez performing at the funeral of Juan de la Cruz, Di Giorgio Park, Arvin, CA, August 21, 1973 © Bob Fitch.

[margotfonteyns]

Sixteen-year-old picketer Marta Rodriguez being arrested during a police riot following a strike by the United Farm Workers Union at the Giumarra Vineyards, California, July 31, 1973. Photo by Bob Fitch.

"Photographers and news crews were everywhere. A news helicopter hovered overhead. But only one photographer, a tall, blond man named Bob Fitch, was in position to get Marta's picture. Crouched behind the fender of a car, where police billy clubs could not reach, he recorded a sequence of images, several of which focused on Marta. Here was a photographer bearing witness, fully engaged, with minimal time to react, other than to spin on his heels and fire off a string of pictures. On-the-spot photojournalism, the photographs of Marta--and several equally dramatic shots of other farmworkers being arrested and dragged out of the vineyards--have haunted me ever since as encapsulations of a long, difficult, almost impossible struggle to organize and develop countervailing power." — Richard Steven Street

[thesociologicalcinema]

Black Community Survival Conference, Free grocery distribution, March 30th, 1972. Photo credit: Bob Fitch — in Oakland, California.

[soundsof71]

Joan Baez and son Gabriel at their home at Struggle Mountain, 1971, by Bob Fitch, via the Bob Fitch photography archive, © Stanford University Libraries

[hysterikan]

Joan Baez performing at Stanford Memorial Church in 1971

Photo by Bob Fitch

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joanie Baez, 1971 © Bob Fitch.