DATE: April 24, 2009

Review: Elaine Mayes at Steven Kasher Gallery


All but one of Mayes's portraits of young people in Haight-Ashbury were made in 1968, when San Francisco's hippies shared the streets with runaway teens and a growing population of drifters and drug addicts.


ImageElaine Mayes, Sweet Pam, courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery
The flower children were no longer so blissed-out, but they sat for their portraits with a touching gravity and looked into Mayes's camera as if they knew they could trust it and her.

Read the complete review in The New Yorker.





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