If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve been to a few concerts. Some remember our first concert, and we all remember the last one we went to, but there is one concert that we all know of, whether we were lucky enough to attend or not. We know of it because it is the most heavily documented concert of all time. That concert is Woodstock. Why do we feel as though we were there? It’s because one man had the forethought to document it, and not just photographically. That man is Henry Diltz, an American treasure. It is impossible to separate the man from the event, and if it weren’t for him, Woodstock might have just been some concert that took place in the 1960s.
Here at , we’ve featured the work of many photographers over the years; we’ve worked with all the legends. Henry Diltz is neither a legend nor just a photographer. Legends are something that exists only in the past, and Diltz is very much in the present, as much now as he was then. I’ve shot photos standing right beside him in recent years; he has never stopped. To call him just a photographer would be selling him short. Diltz is an observer, communicating to us not just through his lens, but through his thoughts and words. It is our luck that he didn’t just shoot the concert; he kept a journal of the event, a day-by-day account of the days preceding the concert, the show itself and the few days that concluded
