Amy Baskette, curatorial assistant at NPG, discusses a 1967 photograph of the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company, by Irving Penn
Curatorial assistant Amy Baskette speaks about 1960s San Francisco rock groups, particularly Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and The Grateful Dead. Recorded at NPG, April 22, 2010. Image: Rock groups, San Francisco, 1967 / Irving Penn / Platinum-palladium print / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Irving Penn