Flash-Forward
One of the first spreads in The Family Acid: California, a new collection of old snapshots culled from Roger Steffens’s archive, shows the photographer and his wife, Mary, their profiles double-exposed against the craggy hills of Big Sur, where they lived in an A-frame cabin during the summer of 1978. Shot in golden light, during a golden era of the Golden State, their silhouettes appear as cameos striated by sun-soaked trees and canyon ridges, the people inextricable from the place.
