Those of who you have seen LAUREL CANYON and gotten a gander at the evocative photos within have Henry Diltz to thank for sharing from his vast archives. A former canyon resident whose neighbors and friends comprised the entire L.A. music scene in the ’60s and ’70s, Henry photographed, literally, everybody, from the Buffalo Springfield to the Monkees and was the official photographer of the Woodstock Festival.

Henry graciously allowed me, with his help and that of his two assistant, to plunder his meticulously maintained files. I was searching for images that captured the atmosphere of the canyon that I’d found in my interviews with Henry himself and others, and I wanted to avoid some of his most famous shots (though we couldn’t resist his iconographic portrait of Joni Mitchell grinning from the window of her Lookout Mountain cottage).

Henry remains a first-rate musician, a founding member of the Modern Folk Quartet, whose sophisticated four-part harmonies prefigured Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

Click here to see a gallery of Henry’s work….

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