Herb Greene [photographer] — [Neal Cassady] | Portrait of Cassady, signed by Greene

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Herb Greene [photographer] — [Neal Cassady]

Photographic portrait, signed and numbered, 1991

Photographic print (20.5 x 17.3’’). Black and white portrait of Neal Cassady, 1 of 3 prints, signed “H. Greene.”

A striking portrait of Cassady—muse of the Beat generation, friend of the Dead, and Merry Prankster. Herb Greene was as close to an “official” photographer as the Dead ever had. Shortly after moving to the Haight in the early 60s he became fast friends with Jerry Garcia, who hired him to take portraits of the band when they were still known as The Warlocks. Greene went on to become a notable photographer of the psychedelic music scene in the Bay Area, and his photographs were widely published in the decades to come as records of the era. His work is featured as the cover art on both In the Dark and Dylan & the Dead.