Biography
Don Aters was originally from Chicago, Illinois, moving to Jeffersonville, Indiana at the age of twelve. Aters attended Indiana University and obtained his Bachelors Degree of Arts in Literature & History, and his Masters Degree in Liberal Arts.
His interests in the music scence lead him to California. There he began his journey as a young photographer that documented the musicians of the mid 60s and early 70s. Attending venues at the Fillmore East and Fillmore West, where Bill Graham was a music promoter for some of the greatest talents in the music industry.
Don Aters first big venue was the The Monterey International Pop Music Festival that was a three-day concert event, held on June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. Aters second big venue was history in the making,he was a photographer at the original Woodstock, located at Max Yasgur's farm, Bethel, New York. Documenting the thirty some acts that performed that weekend in August of 1969. He has also captured images of the 40th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival, the 40th anniversary of Summer Of Love in Golden Gate Park and all the Bonnaroo festivals since their inception in 2002.
Showings at the esteemed Louisville Speed Museum, Indiana University, University of Kentucky, Davidson's Fine Art in St. Petersburg, Florida are but a few of the venues housing images taken by Don on his forty year sojourn amidst The Counter Culture & the music and musicians that defined it.
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