Who photographed the couple on the original Woodstock soundtrack album cover?

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Burk Uzzle photographed the couple on the original Woodstock soundtrack album cover for the Magnum agency.

The image shows two festivalgoers embracing beneath a blanket, a moment that became one of the defining visual symbols of Woodstock. The triple-gatefold album, Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, was released in 1970 and presented selected performances from the 1969 festival.

The couple has commonly been identified as Bobbi Kelly and Nick Ercoline, who later married, although that identification has been disputed by another woman who believes she appears in the photograph. That uncertainty concerns the subjects, not the credited photographer.

A common mix-up is Jim Marshall, whose name is associated with the album’s three-panel crowd photograph taken from the stage. Annie Leibovitz and Henry Diltz were also prominent music photographers, but neither photographed the embracing couple used on this cover.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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