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A Photographic History, 1955-Present
Knopf
October 2009
On Sale: October 20, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 0307270165
EAN: 9780307270160
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Photography
More than two hundred spectacular photographs, sensual,
luminous, frenzied, true, from 1955 to the present, that
catch and define the energy, intoxication, rebellion, and
magic of rock and roll; the first book to explore the
photographs and the photographers who captured rock’s
message of freedom and personal reinvention—and to examine
the effect of their pictures on the musicians, the fans, and
the culture itself.The only music photographers whose names
are well known are those who themselves have become
celebrities. But many of the images that have shaped our
consciousness and desire were made by photographers whose
names are unfamiliar. Here are Elvis in 1956—not yet mythic
but beautiful, tender, vulnerable, sexy, photographed by
Alfred Wertheimer . . . Bob Dylan and his girlfriend on a
snowy Greenwich Village street, by Don Hunstein . . . John
Lennon in a sleeveless New York City T-shirt, by Bob Gruen .
. . Jimi Hendrix, by Gered Mankowitz, a photograph that
became a poster and was hung on the walls of millions of
bedrooms and college dorms . . .For the first time, the work
of these talented men and women is brought into the
pantheon; we see the musicians they photographed and how the
images gave rock and roll its visual identity.To bring
together these images, Gail Buckland, acclaimed photographic
editor, curator, and scholar, looked through the archives of
one hundred photographers, selecting pictures not on the
basis of the usual suspects, but on the power of the images
themselves, often picking an image a photographer didn’t
even remember he or she had taken.Buckland writes about the
photographers, their influences, their relationships with
their subjects, how they took the images, how they saw what
they saw and captured what they captured: the spirit and
essence of rock.A revelation of an art form whose iconic
images changed the world as we knew it.
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