1967’s Other Summer of Love – The New York Times

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1967’s Other Summer of Love

Haight-Ashbury’s flower-bedecked hippie scene may have gotten most of the attention during 1967’s Summer of Love, but Nathan Farb’s photos from the Lower East Side that summer show a grittier side.

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Nathan Farb arrived on the Lower East Side of New York in the mid 1960’s searching for adventure and his Jewish roots. He lamented being “too late for the Beats and too early for the hippies,” but the year after he discovered photography in 1966 he stumbled upon the East Village’s “Summer of Love,” a scene propelled by rock music, drugs, sexual abandon and anti-Vietnam War sentiment.