Roger Steffens is many things: father, veteran, actor, writer, broadcaster, and an expert on all things reggae. He first picked up a camera during the Vietnam War, but not as a photographer — as a witness. “My grandfather and mother had a keen sense of history,” he said. “They both instilled that sense in me that there were things going on around us that would be looked back upon as historic.” Steffens went on to take some 400,000 images during the height of 1970s counterculture, capturing his growing family, spectacular strangers, and the celebrities he came across. “The kids never knew who was going to be knocking on the door,” he said. “I’d say ‘Come out and meet Burning Spear,’ and they'd say ‘Dad I gotta do my math.’” Steffens let the images linger until his children Katherine and Devon started scanning his archive and sharing their family memories on Instagramwith the moniker “The Family Acid,” (Steffens met his wife, Mary, during an acid trip in Mendocino's pygmy forest). A selection of the images will be on view at New York City’sBenrubi Gallery beginning July 7 — Steffens’s first exhibition — and he has shared some with The Atlantic below. The captions were provided by the gallery.
Sunny Silver Man, January 1979
The Haunted Mansion, April 1978
Vatican II, May 1972
Mother Mary, June 1975
Heavenly Triangulation, August 1978
Joan Didion in Berkely, August 1972
Mary, Queen of the Cactus, April 1986
Left: A Spliff a Day, June 1976 Right: The Redwood Alien, December 1973
Wayside Cottage, Mincing Lane, October 1971
Stonehenge Unbound, October 1971
Mirage Lake at the Foot of the Shadow Mountains, March 1976
Elvis, Rhode Island, August 1977
Burned on the Fourth of July, April 1975
Near Death in the Afternoon, Ronda, Spain, March 1971
Tongue Tied by the Renaissance Queen, February 1974
Drive in High Style, August 1977
Escape of the Auras, July 1979
Boonville Truck Shop, November 1970
Brother John, August 1975
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