THE WAY WE WERE: THE  PHOTOGRAPHY OF JULIAN WASSER
 

The Way We Were presents photographer Julian Wasser's intimate panorama of Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s when celebrity culture had yet to become all-consuming and privacy was still possible. Best known for his iconic images of Joan Didion with cigarette in hand leaning against a Corvette Stingray, and Marcel Duchamp playing chess with a nude Eve Babitz in the galleries of his seminal 1963 Pasadena Museum of Art exhibition, the book includes many others such as Barbara Hershey and David Carradine in bed in their Laurel Canyon house, Jack Nicholson and Angelica Huston at Jack’s Mulholland Drive home, and the Fondas lined up on the family sofa. Also featured are pictures of California counterculture; the Hog Farm Commune in Sunland; surfers at Malibu Beach; The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Frank Zappa, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joni Mitchell, Elton John, and many more; Robert Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign, the Watts riots; and Roman Polanski at his house on Cielo Drive in 1969 after the murder of Sharon Tate.

Julian Wasser started his career in photography as a copy boy in the Washington, DC bureau of the Associated Press. He was a contract photographer for Time magazine for many years, and his photographs have appeared in (and on the covers of) Life, Newsweek, People, Vanity Fair, Paris Match, Der Spiegel, Oggi, Hello, Playboy, Elle, Vogue and GQ. He exhibits at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica where his work will be on display through July 5th.