DON SNYDER
THE GRAY WOLF
During the social turmoil of the 1960s Don Snyder captured the underground art scenes flourishing from coast to coast, and traveled on assignment to document Woodstock, The Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin. As the 60s and 70s collided with the 80s, Snyder became captivated by city life, with its vibrant club scenes and radical avant-garde art.
A photographer whose camera captured historic images of Coney island in the 1950s, the hippy revolution of the 1960s, and the club scene in the 1980s.
He is best kown for his iconic photographs of the counter culture, collected in his 1979 book Aquarian Odyssey: A Photographic Trip into the Sixties
PHOTOGRAPHY
"He was remarkable... an alchemist and a magician in the darkroom."
-Gerard Malanga
"He was remarkable... an alchemist and a magician in the darkroom."
-Gerard Malanga
Don Snyder's archive includes a body of early work depicting everyday life in Coney Island in the 1950s.
CONEY ISLAND INFERNO
AQUARIAN ODYSSEY
A penetrating trip into the turbulent sixties in psychedelic color.
- THE NEW YORK TIMES
DIANE ARBUS
RAM DASS
THE GRATEFUL DEAD
JACK SMITH
TIMOTHY LEARY
PORTRAITS
As he was swept into the maelstrom of the times, Snyder's lens focused on some of the most enduring influencers of the 60s and 70s.