Fotografie J. Monbaron (Bischofszell)

about Baron Janis lived a few houses down, the dead were just around the corner, and the boy who lived upstairs from photographer Baron Wolman took too much acid and deliriously went out the third floor window and splashed fatally on the hard, dirty sidewalk of Haight street below. The year was '67 and everyone was grooving.

Driven by the music and the times, a 21-year-old journalist named Jann Wenner gathered some friends and started a revolution in ink. This newsprint rag called Rolling Stone captured the era, defined it in print and pictures, and helped form a generation. Among the friends Wenner interested in his project was Wolman, then a 30-year-old freelance photojournalist. Already an established photographer for glossy magazines like Life and Look, Wolman accompanied Wenner in '67 to cover the story of when Mills College - a bastion of academic music studies - canonized rock music by hosting a conference on its meaning.

When Wenner invited Wolman to shoot for the burgeoning Rolling Stone, Wolman agreed to work for free, and when the first issue hit the streets five months later, rock history began to be recorded.