On This Day, December 8, 1943 (Melbourne, Florida) Jim Morrison Was Born - An American Poet, Singer,

MORE THAN just a good rock group, The Doors represent two things to their millions of followers. Either they project the music-plus-sensuality that is The Doors musical sense combined with Morrison's presence, or they can project the strange drama and rock that comes from Morrison's head.” -Pop Scene Service, April 6, 1968

©  Joel Brodsky, November 1966, New York

July 1967. Photo by Paul Ferrara.

Asbury Park Convention Hall New Jersey, September 2nd 1967. 📷 Gloria Stavers

"Urge to come to terms with the "Outside", by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't  come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within the skull, to rival the real.".  (Jim Morrison, from “The Lords: Notes on Vision”)   

 Photo Session in Frankfurt, Germany, September 14th,1968

Stunning Studio Portraits of The Doors Taken by Guy Webster, 08. 1967. 

Jim and Thor (Ray's brother's doberman) hunt abalone with Ray, Dorothy and Ray's mother. At that time, Jim was living in Ray and Dorothy's house, where he was given the master bedroom. Photo courtesy of Ray Manzarek, 1965.

Jim Morrison, The Doors, "The American Poet", New York, 1966. This is the iconic "American Poet" photograph taken by Brodsky for the band's first album in 1966. Brodsky captured a young Jim Morrison shortly before The Doors became famous.

Jay Thompson photographed Chris Crosby and Jim Morrison in New York in September 1967

The Doors 1967.09.14 Musicarnival, Warrensville Heights, OH