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Neal Cassady, February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968.
1966 photo by Ted Streshinsky.
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Neal Cassady, February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968.
1966 photo by Ted Streshinsky.
KEITH MOON AT THE INTERNATIONAL PINBALL TOURNAMENT BY TED STRESHINSKY (1969)
James Baldwin insisted that a more honest reckoning with history was necessary. 📸 by Ted Streshinsky.
I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.
Joan Didion, The White Album
Ph Ted Streshinsky
"But here is how I most often preferred to visualize myself: not on a moor, not in Shubert Alley, but standing on the steps of a public building somewhere in South America (Argentina comes first to mind, although Argentina was like the sable coat, never actually seen, more concept than reality), wearing dark glasses and avoiding paparazzi. If you were to have asked me why I was standing on the steps of this public building in Argentina, I would have had a ready answer: I was standing on the steps of this public building in Argentina because I was getting a divorce. Hence the dark glasses, hence the paparazzi. I would let other six-year-olds (Brenda, say) imagine their wedding days, their princess dresses, their Juliet caps and seed pearls and clouds of white tulle: I had moved briskly on to the day of my (Buenos Aires) divorce, and the black silk mantilla the occasion would clearly require."
In Sable and Dark Glasses: Joan Didion remembers her distaste for being a child and her yearning for a glamorous, grown up life.
Students at U.C. Berkeley demonstrating their opposition to the war, Berkeley, California, 1965 © Ted Streshinsky
The People’s Park Protests Photo by Ted Streshinsky