Monterey Pop

The camera glides over a sea of faces adorned with flowers, all turned toward the stage. D.A. Pennebaker's lens captures not just a festival, but the birth of a cultural moment. At Monterey in 1967, the defining voices of a generation converge: from the fragile folk poetry of Simon & Garfunkel to the psychedelic roar of Jefferson Airplane. Janis Joplin pours her raw soul into every note, The Who demolish their gear with anarchic glee, and Jimi Hendrix concludes his set with the ritual sacrifice of his guitar. This is the document of a time when music became a new faith.