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Herb Greene was born on 3 April, 1942 in Indio, Riverside County, California, U.S., is an American photographer (born 1942). Discover Herb Greene's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?
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Herb “Herbie” Greene (born 1942) is an American photographer known for his portraits of musicians and bands from San Francisco's counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s.
Many of his images were published by Rolling Stone, by record labels, and in books.
Born April 3, 1942, in Indio in Riverside County, California, Herb Greene grew up on his father's pear orchard in Medford, Oregon.
His father traveled the West Coast selling fruit.
His mother, a homemaker, could draw well, and influenced him to pursue the arts.
When the family moved to Yuba City, California, Greene took a drawing class at Yuba City High School.
He struggled, so when a teacher suggested photography instead, Greene enrolled in a class and bought his first camera, a 1959 Icon Contaflex.
He graduated from high school in 1960.
Herb Greene was part of the 1960s San Francisco art scene and a friend of many of psychedelic rock musicians of the era.
The iconic wall of hieroglyphics used as a background for the Surrealistic Pillow cover photography along with many other famous photos of San Francisco musicians in the late 1960s was in Greene's dining room.
As he removed wallpaper from the room, Greene found the phrase "Happy New Year" written on the wall.
Before he had a chance to paint over it, his roommate drew the hieroglyphics which originally upset him but went on to be synonymous with the image of San Francisco psychedelic music.
His portraits of the band and their 1960s contemporaries appeared in several magazines, including Rolling Stone, Relix, Newsweek and others.
In 1961, Greene took photography classes at City College of San Francisco and later enrolled at San Francisco State University, where he majored in anthropology and communications.
In 1961, Greene took photography classes at City College of San Francisco and later enrolled at San Francisco State University, where he majored in anthropology and communications.
After moving into an apartment near the Haight-Ashbury district, he met Jerry Garcia at a bluegrass café called the "Fox and Hound".
The two became friends and Greene booked his first job, a portrait session with Garcia's band, The Warlocks (later known as the Grateful Dead).
His most iconic images were photos taken between 1965 and 1966; and by 1967 Greene said the "scene was over".
Many of his notable photographs were taken at his San Francisco home studio at 828 Baker Street, on the third floor.
His photographs are a noted record of the era and were used as cover art for several recordings including Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow album (1967), and the Grateful Dead's In the Dark (1987), and Dylan & the Dead (1989).
Greene worked as a fashion and music photographer throughout the 1970s.
His work was included in the Annie Leibovitz edited book, Shooting Stars: the Rolling Stones Book of Portraits (Straight Arrow Press, 1973), alongside photographers Jim Marshall, Baron Wolman, Annie Leibovitz, Nevis Cameron, Ed Caraeff, David Gahr, Bob Seidemann, Barry Feinstein, Ethan Russell, and others.
In 1974, he earned a Grammy Award nomination for art direction on That's a Plenty, The Pointer Sisters’ studio album.
Greene's work with the Grateful Dead took off again in the 1980s.
He shot several sessions with them, including cover art for the album In the Dark (1987) and Dylan & the Dead (1989), the band's compilation with folk singer Bob Dylan.
By the 1990s, Greene's portfolio had cemented his reputation as the unofficial photographer of the Grateful Dead.
He also published several books of his work, including The Book of the Dead: Celebrating 25 Years with the Grateful Dead (1990), Sunshine Daydreams (1991) and Dead Days: A Grateful Dead Illustrated History (1996).
After Garcia's death in August 1995, Greene went on to photograph the Grateful Dead's surviving members and their bands, including The Dead, Bob Weir and RatDog, and Further (featuring Bob Weir and Phil Lesh).
In 1999, Greene moved to Maynard, Massachusetts in the western suburbs of Boston.
He no longer photographs musicians.
Many of his images are on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
In a 2004 Rolling Stone interview, Grace Slick, of the Jefferson Airplane, remembered Greene's dining room photo sessions: “Everybody used to go over there in front of Herbie’s wall.”