The iconic and infamous cover the walls at the Brooklyn Museum's fine exhibition (on view till January 31, 2010), "Who Shot Rock & Roll." Yes you will see many old favorites, like John Lennon wearing a New York City sleeveless tee in Bob Gruen's contact sheet from the familiar 1974 shoot. You will see him again in Richard Avedon's 1967 formal portraits of the Beatles, their mop hair newly coiffed. And again in Allan Tannenbaum's shot of John and Yoko in bed, NYC, 1980 just two weeks before he died. The text explains that Lennon liked Tannenbaum's work: "You really capture Yoko's beauty." And that sums up the essence of this show's raison d'etre as curated by Gail Buckland who also edited the excellent catalogue, to focus on the photographers, how the subject inspired them and the photographic arts. What...
- 10/31/2009
- by Regina Weinreich
- Huffington Post
Richard Hell and Debbie Harry, Seventeenth Street, New York City. Photograph by Chris Stein, with graphics by John Holmstrom, “The Legend of Nick Detroit” Punk magazine, no. 6 (October 1976) © Chris Stein. Gail Buckland is a photographer first and a music-lover second, which makes her the perfect person to create Who Shot Rock & Roll, the dazzling new book and photo exhibition opening on October 30 at the Brooklyn Museum. In the introduction to the book, published today by Knopf, Buckland writes perceptively about how rock ’n’ roll images, many taken by photographers we’ve never heard of, “changed the world and how we see and experience it.” Hey, that’s true! But not every image is a modern-day Mona Lisa, so familiar that you can barely see it through the accompanying haze of formative memories and wistful associations. Click through for eight shots from the book that illustrate Buckland’s other main thesis,...
- 10/22/2009
- Vanity Fair
On Oct. 22, you can purchase the new book Who Shot Rock & Roll, which compiles iconic music photographs from 1955 to the present. On Oct. 30, if you're in the New York area, you can see some of these images in an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum that runs through Jan. 31, 2010. And right this very moment, you can see 10 of our favorites from the collection, complete with notes from the book's editor Gail Buckland, written exclusively for Paste.
- 10/7/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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