{"id":5354353,"date":"2019-10-18T16:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5354353"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:25:09","slug":"john-olson","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/john-olson\/","title":{"rendered":"John Olson"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da9e71a89e74\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355605 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051392. \" caption=\"Photo by John Olson\/The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"A tent-dwelling family at an Oregon read bedtime stories, 1969.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18162415\/Olson_B_IC6-e1571415892615-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"Tent-dwelling hippie family reading bedtime stories. (Photo by John Olson\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">A tent-dwelling family at an Oregon read bedtime stories, 1969.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Photo by John Olson\/The LIFE Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrom the age of 10, I wanted to be a photographer. My father was a farmer, and when he passed away, he was still mystified that you took this little box out and pushed a button and a week later, from the drugstore, these images came back.&#8221; LIFE learned of the precocious&nbsp; John Olson (born 1947) through photos he took for Stars and Stripes while serving two years in Vietnam, where he was wounded twice. He became the magazine&#8217;s youngest staff photographer ever at age 21, and his youth was no doubt central to the success of a completely different sort of feature he shot for LIFE: on rock stars and their families.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapted from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-LIFE-Photographers-Editors\/dp\/0316097934\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EH15RRHPZHFO&amp;keywords=the+great+life+photographers&amp;qid=1570115481&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=the+great+life+photogr%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great LIFE Photographers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da094ba8876e\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355597 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051395. \" caption=\"Rock musician Eric Clapton w. his grandmother Rose in the house he bought her in Surrey. (Photo by John Olson\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18162204\/Olson_C_IC-e1571415724983.jpg\" alt=\"Rock musician Eric Clapton w. his grandmother Rose in the house he bought her in Surrey. (Photo by John Olson\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Rock musician Eric Clapton w. his grandmother Rose in the house he bought her in Surrey. (Photo by John Olson\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da9e5f718830\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5355586 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051391. \" caption=\"Women marching in New York at the Women&#039;s Strike for Equality, a march in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. (Photo by John Olson\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18161955\/Olson_a_IC3-e1571415594139.jpg\" alt=\"Women marching in New York at the Women&#039;s Strike for Equality, a march in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. (Photo by John Olson\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Women marching in New York at the Women&#8217;s Strike for Equality, a march in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. (Photo by John Olson\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFrom the age of 10, I wanted to be a photographer. My father was a farmer, and when he passed away, he was still mystified that you took this little box out and pushed a button and a week later, from the drugstore, these images came back.&#8221; LIFE learned of the precocious&nbsp; John Olson (born &#8230; <a title=\"John Olson\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/john-olson\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5355586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5354353","photographer","type-photographer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Photography of John Olson | LIFE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about John Olson, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US &amp; around the World.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/john-olson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Photography of John Olson | LIFE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn about John Olson, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US &amp; around the World.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/john-olson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"LIFE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-10-18T16:25:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18161955\/Olson_a_IC3-e1571415594139.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1023\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/john-olson\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/john-olson\/\",\"name\":\"The Photography of John Olson | LIFE\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/john-olson\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/john-olson\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18161955\/Olson_a_IC3-e1571415594139.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-18T16:22:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-10-18T16:25:09+00:00\",\"description\":\"Learn about John Olson, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/john-olson\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/john-olson\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/john-olson\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18161955\/Olson_a_IC3-e1571415594139.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/18161955\/Olson_a_IC3-e1571415594139.jpg\",\"width\":1023,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"Women marching in New York at the Women's Strike for Equality, a march in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. 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