Anders Holmquist’s brilliant photo essay, The Free People, documents the hippie lifestyle in the months leading up to (and including) the Woodstock Music Festival. “It’s a book about their music, their work, their mobility, what they read and what they buy, their styles, about why they are free people and how they live,” as the blurb has it.
The book captures the hippie movement at its peak: privileged young people just hanging around – being ‘free’ – in what appears to be an endless summer holiday. It’s a nice place to be. If heaven is a place on earth, then this would probably be it.