I am transfixed. It's poetry revealed in images between two covers. It's a completely original encapsulation of a time that became trite in the hands of so many artists. It needs to be broadcast to the world!
- Susan Haynes, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Manasha Ridge Press
The joyous spirit and love each image evokes is powerful and yet subtle in capturing the spirit of that time. My old Hippie friends will delight in looking at these memories through Shigley's eye.
- Pam Borelli, Photographer, San Francisco
With a $10 camera bought in a Market Street hockshop, he begins recording the kaleidoscopic Hippie revolution of the 60s and 70s in San Francisco. Roy Shigley's crystalline imagery distills an emotional rite of passage through a unique slice of America's cultural life. Friends and strangers in the throes of being exuberant, introspective, lost, loving and knowing is a reflection on what was gained, what has been lost and what is still to be learned about peaceful revolution - both personal and societal.
Just A Moment portrays the internal stages of a revolutionary awakening many around the world experienced during the 60s and 70s. Chapter 1 demonstrates what can happen when fear and inexperience steps aside for joy. Chapter 2 introduces the inevitability of the inward quest. Chapter 3 lays out a potpourri of street life. Chapter 4 illustrates risk and reward for doing one's own thing. Chapter 5 advances the possibility of bringing life's contradictions into balance.
His work has been awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts and praised by Anaïs Nin, who told him, "Your work is your diary." Here in these pages is a photographic diary of an iconic age.
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