![]() ![]() They’d put a Victorian blouse with boots. “It was all feathers and boas and frills,” the fashion stylist Phillip Bloch said. Wolman’s view of the groupies as pioneers in hippie The thick paper stock and oversize format emphasizes Mr. Wolman’s view of the women as style icons comes into sharp focus thanks to a new coffee-table book, “Groupies and Other Electric Ladies.” It collects his published portraits along with outtakes, contact sheets, the original articles from the issue and new essays that put the subjects into a modern context. They weren’t appearing half-naked to get the men’s attention. “They mixed together outfits of the day with things from antique clothing stores to create a real vision. “The thing I noticed immediately about these women was that they had spent a lot of time putting themselves together in ways that were so creative, you couldn’t believe it,” he said. Wolman said his portraits had a different intent. In addition, the sometimes salacious articles that accompanied the photos irked some of the women portrayed. Billed on the cover of “A Special Super-Duper Neat Issue” of Rolling Stone (then a fledgling magazine), they inspired outrage in readers unfamiliar with the sexual innovations of the counterculture. ![]() But even when they do, some people don’t see what is really there.Ĭase in point: Baron Wolman’s pictures of the original groupies in 1969. Now the focus is on their fashion.Ĭultural photographers try to capture images others miss. When Pamela Des Barres and other backstage women came to prominence in 1969, the news media focused on their brazen sexuality. Groupies, From Sex Symbols to Style Icons
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