Ron Cobb

In the early 1970s David Porter was a contributing photographer for some of the most influential Australian Rock music and underground publications (Go-Set, Daily/Planet, Rolling Stone (Australian Edition), The Digger. Porter was based in Melbourne, his subject the zeitgeist of its Rock/Pop music, underground theatre, and Counterculture scenes, sometimes working as ‘David Porter’, sometimes ‘Jacques L’Affrique’, sometimes ‘Jack Africa’. In 1973 he left Melbourne, stopped working in commercial photography, and pursued a teaching career.

Ron Cobb (b. 1937 d. 2020). American-Australian artist and activist. An editorial cartoonist, he also worked on films including ‘Dark Star’ (1974), ‘Star Wars’ (1977), ‘Alien’ (1979).

This photograph was originally published in:
Phil Ochs & Ron Cobb. Planet, 21 June 1972 (p.6)
Phil Ochs, Ron Cobb Still A-Marchin’. Rolling Stone (Australian Notes), 20 July 1972 (p.31).