Paul Kagan

Paul Kagan (1943–1993) was an American photographer, graphic artist, and author. A photographer, graphic artist and author, Kagan is remembered for the rock concert posters featuring his photographs published during San Francisco’s psychedelic Sixties and the book of photographs depicting Utopian communities he published in 1975.

Kagan was born in Chicago in 1943, but his family moved to Los Angeles in the late 1950s. As a teenager, he was active in political protests; by the time he began college at the University of California at Berkeley, he was listed by the House Un-American Activities Committees as one of the country’s most dangerous radicals.

He graduated in 1965 with a degree in history. It was at UC Berkeley that he learned photography, and following graduation he pursued a career as a commercial photographer, magazine art director and television news writer as well as a fine-art photographer. In the late 1960s he photographed the Monterey Pop Festival, the Human Be-In of 1967, and the People’s Park protests of 1969. Provided by Wikipedia