Wallis Annenberg has announced that the Photo Space will not be re-opening. Read her letter of appreciation on the closing of a chapter in Los Angeles.
Metallica concert - Glastonbury, England
Photo by: Ed Colver
Who Shot Rock & Roll
A Photographic History 1955 - Present
Exhibit
Jun 23,
2012 - Oct 21,
2012
Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History 1955 – Present was originally shown and created by the Brooklyn Museum with guest curator and author Gail Buckland. Who Shot Rock & Roll was the first major museum exhibit on rock and roll to spotlight the creative and collaborative role that photographers played in the history of rock music.
The Los Angeles showing of this exhibit was the only one on the western coast of the United States and featured an original short documentary film produced exclusively for the Annenberg Space for Photography. In addition, visitors were able to view a slideshow of 80 images by Henry Diltz taken between 1966-1990, set to a soundtrack.
The Annenberg Space for Photography also partnered with acclaimed Los Angeles public radio station KCRW to create a free live music series during the summer – an exciting addition to Who Shot Rock & Roll and a reminder to music fans of the importance that live performances have played in the history of rock music. The series was free and open to the public.
Please be aware that some of the photographs and films in Who Shot Rock & Roll contain graphic imagery and language – including drug use, nudity, profanity, sexual content and violence – and may not be appropriate for all ages.
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Stories Behind the Photographs
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John was back in New York, sobering up, cleaning his life up. He loved it when people treated him like a normal person rather than a Beatle, and that could happen here.
Bob Gruen
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Featured Photographers
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Ed Colver
Ed Colver is a self-taught photographer who documented the inception of L.A.’s hard core punk scene through his 35mm camera.
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Mark Seliger
Originally from Amarillo, Texas, Mark Seliger was Rolling Stone’s Chief Photographer for many years, where he shot hundreds of their covers.
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Guy Webster
One of the early innovators of rock and roll photography, Guy Webster has spanned the worlds of music, film and politics in his 50-year career.
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Lynn Goldsmith
Lynn Goldsmith is a multi-awarded portrait photographer whose work has appeared on and between the covers of Life, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, People, Elle, Interview and The New Yorker, among others.
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Bob Gruen
Bob Gruen has captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs that have gained worldwide recognition.
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Norman Seeff
Ex-medical doctor Norman Seeff emigrated from South Africa to New York in 1968 to pursue a career as a photographer, filmmaker and designer.
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Henry Diltz
After founding the Modern Folk Quartet, Henry Diltz formed many friendships with recording artists of the California rock community in the 60s and 70s.
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Jill Furmanovsky
Brought up in Zimbabwe, Jill Furmanovsky moved to London in 1965.
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Linda McCartney
Linda Louise McCartney became a professional photographer in the mid-60’s. Her pictures during this period chronicled the musical revolution of the decade.
Iris Nights Presenters
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Brigitte Lacombe
French photographer Brigitte Lacombe works as a special photographer on the films of Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, Sam Mendes, Michael Haneke, David Mamet, Quentin Tarantino, James Gray, Spike Jonze and several other directors.
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Jeffrey Scales
Jeffrey Scales began taking photographs of the Black Panthers and other political activists of the 1960’s at the age of 13.
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Henry Diltz
After founding the Modern Folk Quartet, Henry Diltz formed many friendships with recording artists of the California rock community in the 60s and 70s.
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Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins has spent over three decades traveling the world and performing on stages in over 45 countries.
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Baron Wolman
In 1967, a fortuitous meeting with Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone, resulted in Baron Wolman becoming that publication’s first chief photographer.
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Liz Heller, Gale Sparrow & Penelope Spheeris
MTV hijacked the music business and forced the creation of a new business model with their internal staff and how artists were signed to contracts and marketed to music fans.
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Ed Colver
Ed Colver is a self-taught photographer who documented the inception of L.A.’s hard core punk scene through his 35mm camera.
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Mark Seliger
Originally from Amarillo, Texas, Mark Seliger was Rolling Stone’s Chief Photographer for many years, where he shot hundreds of their covers.
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Michael Ochs
Michael Ochs was raised on rock and roll. He managed the career of his brother, noted folksinger Phil Ochs, and later headed the public relations departments at Columbia Records, Shelter Records and ABC Records.
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Roberta Bayley
Roberta Bayley chronicled the early days of punk rock. Bayley’s photographic work includes images of Blondie and the Sex Pistols on tour, Elvis Costello in the green room at CBGBs and Richard Hell and hanging out in Lower East Side.
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Guy Webster
One of the early innovators of rock and roll photography, Guy Webster has spanned the worlds of music, film and politics in his 50-year career.
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Lynn Goldsmith
Lynn Goldsmith is a multi-awarded portrait photographer whose work has appeared on and between the covers of Life, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, People, Elle, Interview and The New Yorker, among others.
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Bob Gruen
Bob Gruen has captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs that have gained worldwide recognition.
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Norman Seeff
Ex-medical doctor Norman Seeff emigrated from South Africa to New York in 1968 to pursue a career as a photographer, filmmaker and designer.
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Ebet Roberts
Ebet Roberts has been offering candid glimpses of some rock’s most iconic performers for 35 years.
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Gail Buckland
Gail Buckland is an author, educator, consultant, curator and authority on photography.
Slideshow Night Photographers
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Danny Clinch
Danny Clinch has photographed and filmed a wide range of artists, from Johnny Cash to Tupac Shakur, from Bjork to Bruce Springsteen.
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Alvarez Montero
Carlos Alvarez-Montero’s work focuses on identity, individuality and appearances.
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Amber Paresa
She has been the house photgrapher for the Santa Barbara Bowl and fever Fest’s Rocklahoma.
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Andy Earl
Born and brought up in Sussex, at sixteen Andy Earl worked as James Hunt’s mechanic.
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Ann Summa
Ann Summa, based in Los Angeles and Mexico, specializes in documentary, travel and environmental portraiture.
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Brantley Gutierrez
Brantley Gutierrez is a director and portrait photographer based in Venice beach, CA and Brooklyn , NY.
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Chris Mcpherson
Chris McPherson lives in Los Angeles. He doesnt shoot weddings. And dont even think about headshots.
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Claude Gassian
Claude Gassian is a rock and roll photographer. He has developed one of the most significant visual archives documenting the icons of contemporary music.
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Cracker Farm
Cracker Farm has been working professionally in the photo business since 2001.
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Dennis Keeley
Dennis Keeley was a percussionist in the eightist and played with Brian Eno, David Byrne, Peter Case, Victoria Williams and numerous others.
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DuBose
Originally apprenticed to commercial and fashion photographers, George Du Bose first became associated with New Wave music after he began speculative work with the fledgling B52s from Athens, Georgia.
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Eddie Sanderson
Eddie Sanderson was born and educated in England. His competence and mastery of his craft as an award winning photographer grew out of years he spent working for British and International publications and TV companies.
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Elliott Landy
Elliott Landy, born in 1942, began photographing the anti-Vietnam war movement and the underground music culture in New York City in 1967.
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James Minchin
Photographer James Minchin has worked with a variety of clients, including Oakley, Rolling Stone, Warner Bros. Records, UMG, Atlantic Recordings, Capitol Music Group, Wrangler, FX Networks and Amnesty International.
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Jay Blakesberg
Jay Blakesberg is a San Francisco based photographer and film maker whose work appears regularly in many magazines, including Rolling Stone and Guitar Player.
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Jimmy Steinfeldt
Jimmy Steinfeldt is a self-taught photographer who has only to look through the camera lens for inspiration.
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Joe Stevens
Joe Stevens just got lucky photographing all these big shots. Joe had been a road manager, so he knew how to deal with them.
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Joseph Llanes
Growing up in Mexico, Joseph Llanes turned stray dogs and abandoned homes into a child’s dream playground.
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Justin Borucki
Justin Borucki first picked up a camera in high scholl for what he thought would be just another easy art elective, and he hasn’t stopped shooting since.
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Karen Kuehn
Whether shooting portraits of colorful strangers or iconic personaliies, or capturing the streets of New York to the farms of New Mexico, Karen Kuehn’s perspective on our world is unique.
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Kim Gottlieb Walker
Kim Gottlied-Walker’s incredibly varied career has covered everything from rock and roll, reggae and politics in the ’60s and ’70s to working on major motion pictures and television shows.
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Lauren Dukoff
Lauren Dukoff has worked with such celebrated artists as Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Tom Hanks, Katy Perry, Beck, Oprah and Neil Young, and perhaps most prolifically, Devendra Banhart and Adele, friends and collaborators whom she has documented for many years.
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Lisa Law
Over the past four decades, Lisa Law’s still and moving images have chronicled the social and cultural changes in America.
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Marcia Resnick
Marcia Resnick enjoys the give and take of collaboration combined with the responses evoked from confrontation during a photographic portrait session.
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Michael Lavine
Michael Lavine took his first photograph with a pinhole camera made out of a milk carton when he was ten.
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Neil Krug
Neil Krug is a photographer and director based in Los Angeles. Together with his wife, Joni Harbeck, he founded Pulp Art Book, a collection of photography and commercial work in limited edition prints, books and films.
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Rhona Bitner
Rhona Bitner lives and works in New York City and Paris
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Stephen Verona
Stephen Verona is that rare 20th Century artist.
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Valerie Jodoin Keaton
Valerie Jodoin Keaton is a Canadian-American photographer and indie-rock musician.
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Godlis
GODLIS documented the early punk scene at CBGB’s from 1976-1979.
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