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A reflection of boho idealism and optimism against all odds.--Vince Aletti ICP Mayes catches the individuals at the center of a whirlwind in quiet, contemplative repose, after the music, the party, the protest has stopped. The aura of the time is captured in the small details -- peace signs hanging around necks, messages scrawled on walls about love and war and religion.--Rae Alexandra KQED More than half a century old, these are the freshest photos of the '60s you've likely seen, because while Mayes, whose work is held in MoMA, The Met, and The Getty, delivers the wild fashions and explosive hairstyles, she also zeros in on something that pierces the human heart.--Bill Shapiro Esquire Rather than follow the story-driven approach of photojournalism, she began making documentary portraits of the people she encountered on the street with the same curiosity, tenderness, intimacy, and respect that Diane Arbus brought to street portraiture.--Sara Rosen i-D It's not a slight to call these great fashion photographs: Mayes enjoys every detail of her sitters' hippie/boho looks, and that pleasure - along with genuine concern about where these kids are heading - suffuses the work.--Vince Aletti Photograph

It's not a slight to call these great fashion photographs: Mayes enjoys every detail of her sitters' hippie/boho looks, and that pleasure - along with genuine concern about where these kids are heading - suffuses the work.--Vince Aletti Photograph

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Elaine Mayes began her career as a photographer during the early 1960s, having completed her formal education at Stanford and the San Francisco Art Institute. Working independently and on assignment for magazines, Mayes photographed aspects of the Summer of Love, including the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 and hippies in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury District. A book of Mayes' Monterey photographs, It Happened in Monterey, was published in 2003. Mayes' photographs have been published and exhibited widely and are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Mayes taught for over thirty years and is Professor Emerita at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she was Chair of the Photography Department from 1997 until her retirement in 2001.

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