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Turn on, tune in, drop out. Michael Rozendal, an associate professor in the Rhetoric and Language department at the University of San Francisco, talks about San Francisco’s Summer of Love: the liberation and disillusionment. And the hopefulness that can be felt in Irving Penn’s portraits from the summer of 1967. Penn made a series of photographs for "Look" magazine of people participating in San Francisco's Summer of Love. He photographed everyone from hippies and avant-garde dancers to Hells Angels and rock bands. Penn wanted to memorialize the epicenter of the counterculture movement on film and "look into the faces of these new San Francisco people.” See these portraits of San Francisco history for yourself in “Irving Penn,” on view through July 21. Can you guess where Penn's studio was located during the Summer of Love? Hint: It wasn't in San Francisco! #IrvingPenn #SummerOfLove #SanFrancisco #Hippie #Photography

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