A mystery photographer made stunning images of 1960s San Francisco. Clues point to a filmmaking legend
"There’s Carlos Santana, performing so early in his career that his hair is short. A formation of baton-wielding police advance down a San Francisco State pathway. And along with the photos of multicolored Volkswagens, Black Panthers rallies, and counterculture celebrities including Timothy Leary and Jerry Garcia, there are 75 unprocessed rolls of film containing 2,700 more unknown treasures.
At the center of it all is a man, a mystery and a race against the clock. Delzell is on a quest to uncover exactly who took these transcendent photos, while raising money so the images can be developed and viewed by the public; his all-or-nothing $49,000 Kickstarter campaign ended Wednesday as dramatically as any Golden State Warriors buzzer-beating shot."
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@rberger I think this is a better article - and doesn't come with a load of pop ups asking you to turn off and blockers etc ...
https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/10/efforts-underway-to-preserve-historic-images-of-1960s-san-francisco-and-find-the-mystery-photographer-who-shot-them/
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Those were the days...