This is a short series of only 9 photographs I made when I was about 18.... One of the subjects regrettably I did not spend more time documenting, considering Ringling Brothers being criticized by many in society years later over treatment of animals.....The one day I did go to see them at the Cow Palace in SSF, I was able to be a fly on the wall, easily getting backstage to see the performers preparing for their next show..One could never do that today without special passes. In fact whether here, a Winterland concert , a Janis Joplin rehearsal, I would just walk on stage or into the rehearsal room no questions asked , and start photographing.. Photographers had so much more freedom then, unlike todays repressive attitude toward photography. .I was lucky I guess to be there at that time. These few. photographs from that day remain some of my favorites as they capture what I noticed as a distinct space between the artists, each lost in their own world, while practicing for the next show.!
