Eli Reed At a playground where I was teaching art to kids at the park on the Saturday when the first Woodstock Music Festival was going on. I wanted to go but I was sure that if I drove from my home in Pert
(...) h Amboy on a 250 street scrambler motorcycle to Woodstock, and I only had a motorcycle permit and got pulled over, I would probably had ended up in jail for at least the weekend. 500,000 fans showed up on Woodstock that Saturday in 1969. Those two kids drove me crazy at the park, so I retreated to my 1951 Chrysler New Yorker. I saw them sliding in the window looking to drive me crazier. My camera was lying next to me on the car floor. The photo was my revenge. Perth Amboy, NJ. 1969. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos