Flower Power and More

Bernie Boston, photographer of the historically important photo Flower Power, died recently. Everyone over 40 knows this photo, I imagine, since it is (as the obits all said) "iconic."

But Boston had a long career and shot a lot of other important moments and people, brought together in the book Bernie Boston: American Photojournalist. Here is some of his other work.


And do you remember this photo from Hands Across America, the day in May 1986 when 7 million people stood together from New York to California to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness? I had almost forgotten about it until I saw this image:



Bernie Boston, 1933 - 2008