LITTLE FALLS, NJ & WOODSTOCK, NY — Brian Brodeur of TAPintoTV spoke with celebrated photographer Elliott Landy via video conference from his home in Woodstock, New York. Landy, who was the official photographer of the 1969 Woodstock music festival, has a new project in the works, a book of photographs called Contacting The Band, a collection of portraits depicting the musicians, The Band. 

Brodeur spoke to Landy about how he got started taking photographs, and Landy described a moment when he was walking down Broadway in Manhattan, and saw something beautiful, but had no means to show it later to others. So, this inspired him to buy a camera, and he began taking pictures. 

Not long afterwards, he quit his office job to pursue photography full time. “I realized that in order for me to exist, I had to do something I liked to do.” 

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