California dreaming! Stunning photos show life in the Golden State during its 1968 heyday – from flower children on horseback to the rock ‘n roll kids of Venice Beach

• In 1968, photographer Dennis Stock took a five-week road trip along the California highways
• He documented the journey to create California Trip, originally published in 1970
• The collection has now been re-issued for the first time since its original publishing 

A stunning collection of photos showing California at the height of the counter-cultural revolution has been newly re-issued. 

In 1968, photographer Dennis Stock took a five-week road trip along the California highways, documenting the height of the counterculture hippie scene. 

These black and white photos were compiled to create California Trip, originally published in 1970, and now in reprint for the first time since its original print run.

California Trip became an emblem of the free love movement that has continued to inspire throughout the decades, and the new edition is a faithful reproduction of Stock’s timeless work.

Stock won first prize in both Life’s Young Photographers Contest in 1951 and the International Photo Competition in Poland in 1962. He passed away in 2010.

The California Trip reissue is now out from Anthology Editions, available here.

A couple ride a horse in Novato in Northern California

A girl jumps on stage and dances in front of Stock’s camera at the 1968 Venice Beach Rock Festival

Beachgoers are seen in Venice in the collection of photos Dennis Stock took during a five-week road trip along the California highways in 1968. These black and white photos were compiled to create California Trip, newly reissued

A sign marks the border crossing from Nevada at Lake Tahoe in a photo from California Trip

A man with a surfboard stands on the stairs in Corona Del Mar

A raccoon prances on a woman’s shoulders on the University of California – Berkeley campus

A man shows off his chest tattoo on the beach in Santa Monica

Cars are seen in San Diego in the reissued collection from photographer Dennis Stock

The shadow of an airplane is seen on the sand at Playa Del Rey in Los Angeles as a person suntans in the foreground

A cast member from Planet of the Apes is seen sitting at a Culver City bus stop during filming in 1967

In 1968, photographer Dennis Stock took a five-week road trip along the California highways, documenting the height of the counterculture hippie scene. These black and white photos were compiled to create California Trip

In print for the first time since its 1970 publication, California Trip is a faithful reproduction of Stock’s timeless work

Oil wells are seen by a golf course in this shot from the newly reissued collection

Mars Station at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow

Photographer Dennis Stock is seen in a self portrait in a mirror. He passed away in 2010

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