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Simone Bergmann: Isle of Wight

Simone Bergmann: Isle of Wight

Bergmann, Simone
Schäfer, Christoph
Von Braun, Christina

Paperback

General PhotographyPhotographersPop/Rock

Publisher Price: $35.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 29, 2026

ISBN10: 395905520X
ISBN13: 9783959055208
Publisher: Spector Books
Published: Dec 29 2026
Pages: 144
Language: English

Never-before-published photographs of the legendary, raucous and record-breaking 1970 music festival often dubbed the Woodstock of England

In August 1970, Hamburg photographer Simone Bergmann traveled to the Isle of Wight off the coast of Great Britain for its annual music festival. The lineup was a music-lover's dream: Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, The Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Miles Davis, Kris Kristofferson, Supertramp, Procol Harum, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Chicago all performed among dozens of other acts. An estimated 600,000 to 700,000 people were in attendance. The festival was periodically disrupted by spectators from Desolation Row, the area immediately behind the double fencing, who demanded that the event have free admission. It was not until the last day that the organizers yielded to the pressure. Bergmann photographed this conflict, while also capturing the unique and--to our eyes--almost anachronistic moment of public happiness, as Hannah Arendt called it.

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