Flower power
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair."--"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" (1967) by John Phillips |
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Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. The expression was coined by the American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965 as a means to transform war protests into peaceful affirmative spectacles. Hippies embraced the symbolism by dressing in clothing with embroidered flowers and vibrant colors, wearing flowers in their hair, and distributing flowers to the public, becoming known as flower children. The term later became generalized as a modern reference to the hippie movement and the so-called counterculture of drugs, psychedelic music, psychedelic art and social permissiveness.
The Ultimate Confrontation by Marc Riboud and Flower Power by Bernie Boston are the ultimate photographic representation of the concept.
The second photo shows a young man in a turtleneck sweater placing carnations in the rifle barrels of military policemen.
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