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About the Exhibition.................................... 1 What will students see? Photographers featured Musicians/bands featured

Exhibition Checklist...................................2-6 About the Photographers..........................7-12 Exhibition-Related Websites....................13-14 Exhibition-Related Books............................15

Exhibition-Related Vocabulary......................16

Pre- and Post-Visit Activities...................17-18

Select Images from the Exhibition...........19-25

NEW! Rock On! T-Shirts and Pins................26

Explore the Collection.................................27

Rock On!Masterworks of

Rock Photography

SPECIAL EXHIBITION RESOURCE GUIDEFOR TEACHERS

The Heckscher Museum of Art

Art Kane, The Rolling Stones, 1966 (printed 2007), LightJet Digital C-Print, 10 x 16 in. © Art Kane Archive www.artkane.com

Since its beginnings, rock ‘n’ roll has been both a musical and visual movement, complete with dramatic concert performances featuring wild hair-dos and costumes, pyrotechnics and light shows. Rock ‘n’ roll is a revolutionary musical form reflective of society’s need for freedom and creativity.

Photographers have immortalized the rebellious personas of rock ‘n’ roll stars, capturing their appearance in candid and studio portraits and in behind-the-scenes and concert shots that have become an indelible component of Rock ‘n Roll history.

Rock On! Masterworks of Rock Photography presents 60 images of Rock ‘n Roll musicians from the early days of Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry, through the classic period of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Doors, up to today’s hip-hop musicians Tupac Shakur and LL Cool J. These iconic images by 28 of rock’s master photographers reveal the extraordinary artistry that has created a compelling visual record of self-expression in the second half of the 20th century.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONRock On! Masterworks of Rock Photography

What will students see? 60 photographs of rock ‘n’ roll stars

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The BeatlesChuck BerryBlondieDavid BowieEric ClaptonThe ClashKurt CobainLL Cool JCountry Joe and the FishDavid Crosby and Graham Nash

Janis JoplinKISS Led ZeppelinJohn LennonLittle RichardCourtney LoveMadonnaBob MarleyPrinceThe RamonesLou Reed The Rolling Stones

Bob Gruen Art KaneElliot LandyGered MankowitzJonathan MannionLinda McCartneyTom Murray

Jan OlofssonMick RockMark SeligerJoseph SiaKate SimonFrank StefankoPeter Strongwater

Joel BrodskyDanny Clinch William Coupon Henry Diltz Claude Gassian Greg Gorman Henry Grossman

Musicians/bands featured (alphabetical)

Photographers featured (alphabetical)

The DoorsBob Dylan Elvis PresleyAretha FranklinJerry GarciaMarvin GayeIsaac HayesJimi HendrixLauryn HillMichael JacksonJefferson AirplaneJoan Jett

Diana RossTupac Shakur Grace SlickPatti SmithSonny & CherBruce SpringsteenCat Stevens The WhoNeil YoungFrank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

Masayochi SukitaAllan TannenbaumDick WatermanBarrie WentzellAlfred WertheimerBaron WolmanFirooz Zahedi

EXHIBITION CHECKLIST (alphabetical by photographer)

Rock On! Masterworks of Rock Photography

Photographer Photographs

Joel Brodsky The Doors, 1967 KISS, 1975 Black and white pigment print Color pigment print 24 x 20 in. 24 x 20 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery Courtesy Govinda Gallery Jim Morrison, 1967 Isaac Hayes, 1971 Black and white pigment print Color pigment print 21 x 17 in. 20 x 16 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Danny Clinch Tupac Shakur, NYC, 1993 Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

William Coupon Jerry Garcia, 1989 Neil Young, 1988 Color pigment print, 24 x 20 in. Color pigment print, 22 x 17 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Henry Diltz Crosby-Nash, Woodstock ‘69, 1969 Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Claude Gassian Madonna, 1984 Marvin Gaye, 1976 Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in Courtesy Govinda Gallery Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Prince Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in Courtesy Claude Gassian and Govinda Gallery

Greg Gorman Michael Jackson, 1987 Silver gelatin print, 26 x 20 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Henry Grossman The Beatles, 1968 Color pigment print, 25 1/2 x 21 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

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EXHIBITION CHECKLIST (continued)



Bob Gruen John Lennon, 1974 Led Zeppelin, in Front of Plane, Silver gelatin print New York, 1973 14 x 11 in. Silver gelatin fiber base photo print Courtesy Govinda Gallery 16 x 20 in. Courtesy Bob Gruen

Art Kane The Who with Flag, Roger Daltrey, 1968 Morningside Park, NYC, 1968 Photograph Photograph Janis Joplin, 1968 Rolling Stones, 1966 Photograph Photograph

Mick Jagger, 1966 Jim Morrison X-Ray, 1968 Photograph Photograph

Brian Jones and the Queen, 1966 Bob Dylan, Cornered, 1966 Photograph Photograph The Mothers of Invention, 1969 Sonny & Cher, 1966 Photograph Photograph

Country Joe and the Fish, 1968 Aretha Franklin, 1967 Photograph Photograph Jefferson Airplane 1968 LIFE Magazine Cover, 1968 Photograph

Elliott Landy Jim Morrison, Hunter College, NYC, 1968 Silver gelatin print, 12 3/4 x 19 in. Courtesy Private Collection

Music from Big Pink, The Band, Woodstock, NY, 1968 Silver gelatin print, 19 x 12 1/2 in. Courtesy Private Collection

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Gered Mankowitz Jimi Hendrix, 1966 Keith Richards, 1965 Black and white pigment print Black and white pigment print 20 x 16 in. 20 x 16 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Jonathan Mannion Lauryn Hill, 2001 LL Cool J, 2002 Digital C-print, 24 x 20 in. Digital C-print, 24 x 20 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Linda McCartney John Lennon, 1968 Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy ??? and Govinda Gallery

Tom Murray The Beatles, 1960s Color C-print, 20 x 24 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Jan Olofsson The Beatles, May 1967, 1967 Hand-tinted silver gelatin print, 17 x 21 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Mick Rock Blondie, 1978 Joan Jett, 1979 Color C-print, 20 x 16 in. Color C-print, 20 x 16 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery Courtesy Govinda Gallery Lou Reed, 1975 The Ramones, 1979 Silver gelatin print, 21 x 24 1/2 in. Color C-print, 20 x 16 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Mark Seliger Kurt Cobain, 1993 Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Joseph Sia Eric Clapton, 1979 Silver gelatin print, 21 x 17 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery 4




Kate Simon Bob Marley, “Kaya”, 1976 The Clash, 1976 Silver gelatin print, 14 x 11 in. Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Frank Stefanko Patti Smith, “The Stoop,” 1974 Bruce Springsteen, “Badlands,” Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in. Haddonfield, NJ, 1978 Courtesy Govinda Gallery Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 in Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Peter Strongwater Mick Jagger, 1983 Silver gelatin print, 24 x 20 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Masyoshi Sukita David Bowie, 1977 Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Allan Tanenbaum John and Yoko, 1980 Grace Slick, 1970 Black and white pigment print Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in. 16 x 20 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Cat Stevens, 1971 Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Dick Waterman Chuck Berry, 1965 Black and white pigment print, 22 1/2 x 17 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Barrie Wentzell Little Richard, 1972 Diana Ross, 1965 Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in. Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Alfred Wertheimer Elvis: Going Home, July 4, 1956, 1956 Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery 5


Rock On! Masterworks of Rock PhotographyPhotographer Photograph

Baron Wolman Janis Joplin, 1968 Pete Townshend, 1967 Color C-print, 20 x 16 in. Silver gelatin print, 14 x 11 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Jimi Hendrix performing, 1967 Color pigment print, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

Firooz Zahedi Courtney Love, 2004 Color C-print, 20 x 16 in. Courtesy Govinda Gallery

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ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHERSRock On! Masterworks of Rock Photography

Joel Brodsky (American, 1939 - 2007)

Joel Brodsky opened his first photography studio in 1967, seven years after graduating from Syracuse University, where he had enrolled in one photography course. That same year, Brodsky landed the cover of The Doors self-titled debut album, which was nominated for a Grammy. Throughout his career, Brodsky photographed many musicians including Aretha Franklin, Isaac Hayes, Led Zeppelin and KISS. In 2007, Brodsky’s work was the subject of a significant, ground-breaking exhibition at the Stax Museum of American Soul in Memphis.

Danny Clinch (American)

Danny Clinch interned with famed photographer Annie Leibovitz at the beginning of his career. His beautifully detailed music photographs have appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, as well as in two books, Discovery Inn in 1998 and The Iron Bird Flies in 2000. In 2003, Clinch founded Three on the Tree Productions, which produces music videos, concert films and documentaries. Clinch has filmed musicians such as Dave Matthews and Van Morrison, and he received a Grammy nomination for the video portion of Bruce Springsteen’s dual disc Devils and Dust.

William Coupon (American, b. 1952)

William Coupon is a New York based artist who has worked in photography and commercial film since the late 1970s, when he created a series on New York youth culture. His portrait subjects range from Turkish Kurds to celebrities and penitentiary inmates to Drag Queens. These wide ranging subjects from around the world form a Social Studies series – an examination of subcultures through portraiture. Coupon’s aims were not “to make it a series solely of indigenous peoples. It was always to show how the individual plays into the group, how the individual defines the group.” Coupon’s portraits also include diplomats and politicians, including every U.S. president from Nixon to George W. Bush.

Henry Diltz (American, b. 1938)

Henry Diltz has been a photographer and musician since the 1960s, when he was a founding member of the Modern Folk Quartet. Over the course of his career, he has toured with various bands and captured many iconic moments in music history. He photographed at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and was an official photographer at Woodstock in 1969. His photographs have appeared on over 100 album covers, and his work has appeared in Billboard, Newsweek, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. The limited edition book California Dreaming, published in 2007, provides a retrospective of Diltz’s career with an insider’s view of the Southern California music scene during the 1960s and 70s. In 2001, Diltz was one of the co-founders of the Morrison Hotel Galleries, which specializes in fine art music photography.

Claude Gassian (French) The best-known photographer in Paris, Claude Gassian was always interested in music. He studied electronics for seven years in order to work in a recording studio before turning to photography. In 1970, he photographed The Doors, Jimi Hendrix and The Who at the Isle of Wight Festival and since then he has photographed celebrity musicians from many musical genres, including rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm and blues, jazz and rap. In his photographs, Gassian attempts to merge his subject with the surroundings, creating images that are at once both intimate and artistically striking.

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Greg Gorman (American, b. 1949)

Greg Gorman’s photography career began in the late 1960s when he photographed music legends such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin in concert. While studying cinematography in Los Angeles, Gorman did actors’ headshots and for several years he focused on celebrity portraiture. His focus shifted in the 1980s when he began photographing male and female nudes, and since then he has expanded his repertoire to include everyday people in places like India and Thailand. Gorman has also traveled across America photographing the country’s many diverse peoples and character, which is documented in his series We the People.

Henry Grossman

Henry Grossman began his career as a photographer in the early 1960s with work for weekly magazines and newspapers such as Time, Life and Newsweek. He photographed a wide range of personalities, including Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela. Although he is probably better known as a photographer of opera stars, Grossman photographed The Beatles during their Sgt. Pepper period, spending one evening at the Abbey Road Studios when the band recorded “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”

Bob Gruen (American, b. 1945)

Bob Gruen was raised in Great Neck and attended college in Ohio before moving to New York in 1969 to experience the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. Living in Greenwich Village, he explored the underground music scene in Manhattan and became a major photographer of New York and London punk and New Wave groups. Gruen became the chief photographer of Rock Scene magazine, which covered the cult music world of New York City, and his subjects included Led Zeppelin, Iggy Pop, Blondie and many other stars. Gruen met John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1971. As a friend and neighbor, he became their personal photographer, helping them craft the public image they wanted to project. The image of John Lennon on view in Rock On! Masterworks of Rock Photography is one of the most well-known photographs in rock ‘n’ roll history.

Art Kane (American, 1925-1995)

Art Kane began his career as an art director before turning to photography in 1958. His first assignment was a portrait shot of 57 influential jazz musicians on a Harlem street. Harlem 1958 was published in Esquire magazine (January 1959) and is renowned as one of the greatest photographs in the history of jazz. In the 1960s, Kane shot two major photo essays on rock ‘n’ roll that featured musicians such as Bob Dylan, Sonny and Cher, The Rolling Stones, Jim Morrison and The Doors, The Who, Janis Joplin, and Country Joe and the Fish. Rather than shooting live performances, Kane preferred to compose his photographs. His approach was that of a director: “If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them, own them, …then twist them into what you want to say about them.” Kane’s work is characterized by its creative conceptual approach and his photographs often express unseen aspects of his subjects, while capturing their essential spirit. He has been described as a “photographer’s photographer,” and his innovative work in music, fashion and editorial photography has exerted significant influence in the field.

Jonathan Mannion (American, b. 1970)

Jonathan Mannion’s love of urban culture and his desire to be a photographer drew him to New York, where he studied with Richard Avedon in the 1990s. He began his professional career in 1996 with a shoot for Brooklyn rapper Jay-Z’s album Reasonable Doubt, and since then he has become the quintessential hip-hop photographer. Mannion also directs music videos and has photographed sports figures, such as Kobe Bryant and Lance Armstrong, as well as many other celebrities, including Hugh Heffner.

Linda McCartney (American, 1941 - 1998)

While working as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, Linda McCartney attended a promotional party for the Rolling Stones, where she took photographs that propelled her career into rock ‘n’ roll photography. During the 1960s, she photographed many musicians, including Eric Clapton for the May 1968 cover of Rolling Stone, becoming the first woman to shoot a cover for the magazine. On assignment in London to cover the “swinging sixties,” she met her future husband, the Beatle Paul McCartney. Linda was a member of McCartney’s band Wings, and she became a vocal animal rights activist and proponent of vegetarian lifestyles.

Tom Murray (English)

Tom Murray started his career as a newspaper photojournalist working in Africa as chief photographer for The Zambia News & Times. When he returned to England, Murray worked with photographer Lord Snowdon and was later hired by the Royal Family, becoming their youngest official portrait photo-grapher. Murray’s photograph of The Beatles seen here was shot at their last official promotional shoot.

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Gered Mankowitz (English, b. 1946)

By 1964 Gered Mankowitz had established himself as a talented portrait photographer of musicians like Marianne Faithful and the vocal duo Chad and Jeremy. The following year he shot the cover for the Rolling Stones album Out of Our Heads, released in the U.S. as December’s Children (and Everybody’s). Mankowitz was the official photographer on the Stones American tour that year, helping establish their bad boy image. A 1982 exhibit of Mankowitz’s work received record-breaking attendance at London’s Photographer’s Gallery, resulting in the publication of the photography book Hit Parade.

Elliott Landy (American, b. 1942)

Elliott Landy’s earliest photographs document the anti-Vietnam War movement and the underground music scene in New York City in the late 1960s. Between 1967 and 1969, Landy toured with Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, and in 1969 he was an official photographer for the Woodstock Festival. Landy’s photographs have appeared on the covers of magazines such as Rolling Stone, Life and Saturday Evening Post, as well as on many classic album covers, including Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline.

Mark Seliger (American, b. 1959)

Mark Seliger studied the history of documentary photography in college before moving to New York in 1984 to establish himself as a photographer. In 1987, he started working for Rolling Stone magazine, succeeding Annie Liebovitz as chief photographer there in 1992. In ten years, Seliger shot more than 100 covers for the magazine, creating a photographic history of rock music in America, from classic rock through alternative rock, country, hip hop and rap. His subjects are a ‘Who’s Who’ of popular music, including Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Kurt Cobain, the Grateful Dead, Jay-Z, Dolly Parton, Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones, U2 and countless others. In 2006, Seliger co-founded 401 Projects, a non-profit photography gallery in New York that focuses on emerging and established artists.

Joseph Sia (American, 1945-2003)

Bronx-born Joseph Sia spent much of his thirty-year career shooting live performances of musicians. Among his earliest photographs are images of the Grateful Dead from 1968, and his first published photograph was an image of the English rock/blues musician Joe Cocker that appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in 1969. Sia’s work has been widely published in magazines and books, including two of his own: Woodstock ’69: A Photo Essay in 1970 and Eight Days A Week: An Illustrated History of Rock and Roll in 1992.

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Kate Simon (American)

Kate Simon is best known for her soulful portrait photographs of Jamaican reggae artists. She began her career in London, taking pictures of bands like Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones and in 1975 took her first photos of Bob Marley and the Wailers. Her work was admired by Chris Blackwell, the owner of Island Records, who sent her to Jamaica in 1976 to photograph reggae artist Bunny Wailer. Simon’s photograph of Marley was used for the cover of his album Kaya in 1978 and was chosen by French journalist Marie-Monique Robin as one of the defining images of the 20th century in her book Les 100 Photos du Siècle. In 2004, Simon published 400 photographs in Rebel Music: Bob Marley and Roots Reggae.

Mick Rock (English)

Before becoming an accomplished photographer, Mick Rock studied modern languages at Cambridge University in England, where he was exposed to the rock ‘n’ roll culture that has shaped his career. As one of David Bowie’s favorite photographers, Rock worked with Bowie in the early 1970s on the book Moonage Daydream, creating memorable images of the musician’s alter ego, Ziggy Stardust. Rock also photographed album covers for Lou Reed, Queen and Iggy, and the Stooges, and he was allowed access to photograph the making of the cult movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show. In 2006, Rock was honored with a Diesel U Music Legends Award.

Jan Olofsson (Swedish, b. 1946)

Jan Olofsson has worked in the music industry for more than four decades doing everything from public relations and managing musicians to photography. At age 16, he moved to Hamburg, Germany, where he saw The Beatles in concert and he later lived with the band for several weeks. In 1963, he began studying journalism in London, and he worked as a photojournalist for Swedish newspapers. He also worked as the photographer for the pop British TV show Ready Set Go!, taking backstage pictures of musicians. Olofsson opened Flicka, a club in London, in 1970 and since then has established his own record company, Young Blood Records.

Masayoshi Sukita (Japanese)

The Japanese photographer, Masayoshi Sukita, met David Bowie in London in 1972 when he shot his first Ziggy Stardust photos. Sukita became one of Bowie’s favorite photographers and traveled with the musician on tour to New York and Japan in 1973. In 1992, Sukita and Bowie published a book of photographs called Ki – Spiritual Force, featuring images from August 1972 through February 1992. The forward of the book explains the concept of ki as a “spiritual force [that] defies explanation. We experience it in silence and without fanfare. Spiritual force touches us and flows from us, like the ripple in a still pond.…Spiritual force is the fundamental secret shared by artists and is the reason art so vitally inspires. Spiritual force, or ki, is everything. And without ki, there is nothing.

Allan Tanenbaum (American, b. 1945) Allan Tanenbaum began his career as an independent filmmaker before becoming chief photographer and photo editor of the Soho Weekly News in 1973. He photographed John Lennon and Yoko Ono just two weeks before Lennon’s death in 1980. Since then, Tanenbaum has concentrated on photojournalism, covering many international news events including the Philippine Revolution, the siege of Kabul, the Rwanda refugee crisis and the Palestinian Intifada, which won first prize in Spot New Stories at the World Press Photo competition in 1989.

Dick Waterman (American, b. 1935)

Dick Waterman photographed prominent blues musicians during the 1960s, sometimes also acting as their manager and promoter. Having full backstage access allowed him to shoot intimate images that have now become iconic. In an interview for Nashville Scene, Waterman described his experience: “It was just me having the camera around my neck and the guys or women just hanging out, relaxing and being themselves.” Waterman founded Avalon Productions, the first agency to represent blues artists, and in 2000 he became the first non-musician to be inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame.

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Frank Stefanko (American, b. 1946)

Frank Stefanko became interested in photography as a result of his friendship with Patti Smith in college in the mid-1960s. His most famous photographs are the Springsteen album covers Darkness on the Edge of Town and The River. The photographer’s close relationship with Springsteen resulted in Stefanko’s book, Days Of Hope And Dreams, An Intimate Portrait of Bruce Springsteen. Many of Stefanko’s photographs of Springsteen were also featured in the exhibition Troubadour of the Highway that toured America between 2002 and 2004.

Peter Strongwater

Peter Strongwater’s earliest work in the entertainment industry was as a photographer for Andy Warhol’s pop magazine Interview during the 1980s. Strongwater’s avant-garde photographs included musicians like Diana Ross and fashion shoots. In 1995, he founded Photo-Group, a production company that handles casting, shoot locations and crews, as well as rental studios for advertising campaigns.

Baron Wolman (American, b. 1937)

Baron Wolman worked as a freelance photojournalist until 1967 when he became the first chief photographer for the new rock magazine Rolling Stone. In three years Wolman shot 22 covers for the magazine, photographing many rock superstars, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Pink Floyd. When Wolman left Rolling Stone, he founded Rags, a short-lived, counter-culture fashion magazine. Since then Wolman has worked in aviation photography, and he founded the publishing house Square Books, which produced two books of his photography – California from the Air: The Golden Coast in 1981 and The Holy Land: Israel from the Air in 1987.

Firooz Zahedi (Iranian, b. 1949)

Firooz Zahedi studied at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service before deciding after graduation to pursue photography. In the mid-1970s, he worked for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine and met Elizabeth Taylor, who asked him to be her personal photographer on her movie shoots. In Los Angeles, Zahedi became a renowned celebrity portrait photographer, and he did editorial work for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, and Esquire. Zahedi has been a prominent cinema photographer as well, working on the set of cult classics such as Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands.

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Alfred Wertheimer (American, b. 1929)

In 1956, when Alfred Wertheimer was asked by RCA to photograph their newly signed singer Elvis Presley, Wertheimer didn’t know who Elvis was. Wertheimer first photographed the up-and-coming star when he appeared on television on the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show, and he then traveled with Elvis for ten days, shooting 1500 images that provide the greatest photographic record of the young ‘King’ on the brink of superstardom. Wertheimer had studied photography at the Cooper Union in New York, and his interest was in the photojournalistic tradition of telling a story through pictures. He photographed Elvis in intimate and low-key settings, capturing the musician serious at work and also revealing his tenderness, sexiness and charisma. Wertheimer’s photographs of Elvis were not well known until after the singer’s death in 1977, although they are now regarded as among the most memorable images in rock ‘n’ roll history.

Barrie Wentzell (English, b. 1942)

Barrie Wentzell learned the fundamentals of photography working for the photo studio Color Applications in London between 1961 and 1962. This experience in the field inspired him to pursue photography as a career and he began working as a fashion, music and advertising photographer. In 1965, he met the then unknown Diana Ross and took a picture of her that landed the cover of The Melody Maker, England’s most distinguished music magazine. The image proved pivotal to Wentzell’s career; Bob Houston, assistant editor of the magazine, hired Wentzell as chief photographer, a position he held until 1975.

http://www.mantoani.com/

EXHIBITION-RELATED WEBSITES

Photographer Tony Mantoani’s “Behind Photographs Project” includes photographs of several of the photographers featured in Rock On! Masterworks of Rock Photography with one of their famous photographs.

This database of Limited Edition Rock and Roll Photo-graphic Prints is searchable by musician/artist or photog-rapher.

Joel Brodsky: http://www.tmetta.com/brodsky.htmlDanny Clinch: http://www.dannyclinch.com/William Coupon: http://www.williamcoupon.com/Henry Diltz: http://www.henrydiltz.com/Claude Gassian: http://www.claudegassian.fr/Greg Gorman: http://www.gormanphotography.com/Henry Grossman: http://www.govindagallery.com/2009/01/henry-grossman/Bob Gruen: http://www.bobgruen.com/Elliott Landy: http://www.landyvision.com/Gered Mankowitz: http://www.mankowitz.comJonathan Mannion: http://www.jonathanmannion.com/Linda McCartney: http://www.lindamccartney.com/Tom Murray: http://www.tommurrayphotos.com Jan Olofsson: http://janolofsson.com/Mick Rock: http://www.mickrock.com/Mark Seliger: http://www.markseliger.com/Joseph Sia: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/joseph-sia/memorabilia/Kate Simon: http://www.katesimonphotography.com/Frank Stefanko: https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographer/default.aspx?photographerID=12Peter Strongwater: http://www.photo-group.com/Masayoshi Sukita: http://www.5years.com/gallerysukita.htmAllan Tannenbaum: http://www.sohoblues.com/Dick Waterman: http://dickwaterman.com/Barrie Wentzell: http://www.barriewentzell.com/Alfred Wertheimer: http://www.photokunst.com/photographer_detail.php?artist_id=13Baron Wolman: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/baron-wolman/photography.htmlFirooz Zahedi: http://firoozzahedi.com/

http://rockarchive.com

http://rockhall.com/ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

http://rock.about.com/ About.com information about Rock Music. Links to information about art-ists, styles, reviews, and much more.

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Official websites of select Musicians/bands (alphabetical)

The Beatleshttp://www.thebeatles.com/

Bob Dylanhttp://www.bobdylan.com/

Bob Marleyhttp://web.bobmarley.com/

Chuck Berryhttp://www.chuckberry.com/

The Doorshttp://www.thedoors.com/

Elvis Presleyhttp://www.elvis.com/

Jimi Hendrixhttp://www.jimihendrix.com/us/home

Lauryn Hillhttp://www.lauryn-hill.com/

Madonnahttp://www.madonna.com/

Michael Jacksonhttp://www.michaeljackson.com/us/home

The Rolling Stoneshttp://www.rollingstones.com/

Tupac Shakurhttp://tupac-online.com/

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Morse, Tim. Classic Rock Stories: The Stories Behind the Greatest Songs of All T Time. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998

DeCurtis, Anthony, James Henke and Holly George-Warren. The Rolling Stone Il- lustrated History of Rock and Roll: The Definitive History of the Most Im- portant Artists and Their Music. New York: Random House, 1992.

George-Warren, Holly, Patricia Romanowski and Jon Pareles. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Revised and Updated for the 21st Century. New York: Fireside, 2001.

Buckland, Gail. Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History, 1955-Pres- ent. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

EXHIBITION-RELATED BOOKS

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photograph: An image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film.

silver gelatin print: A traditional photographic print in which the final imaging material is metallic silver suspended in a gelatin binder.

c-print or chromogenic print: Color print made from a color transparency or negative. The print material has at least three emulsion layers of silver salts. Each layer is sensitized to one of the three primary colors in the spectrum. During the first stage of development a silver image is formed on each layer. Dye couplers are then added which bond with the silver and form dyes of the appropriate colors in the emulsion layers.

pigment print: A print made from a process by which an image is digitally rendered on an inkjet printer using archival pigment inks that have been laboratory tested to be fade resistant for 150 years.

point of view or viewpoint: The position from which the subject of a work of art is observed. (Examples: bird’s eye, ant’s eye)

portrait: A painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant.

rock ‘n’ roll: A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western; “rock” is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock ’n’ roll.

EXHIBITION-RELATED VOCABULARY

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Musical Debate: Marketing v. Fine ArtGrade Level: Middle through High School (adjust as needed)

Motivation:

The first music video was created and aired on MTV in 1981. This was a benchmark in music history; Music was no longer just an auditory experience, but a multi-sensory experience that enabled musicians to reach millions of viewers.

Look carefully at select works of art on view in Rock On! Masterworks of Rock Photography. Then view several music videos by these same musicians.

Procedure:

1. Present the following issues to the class (if you would like, brainstorm more):

2. Divide the class into two groups per issue. Assign set of groups an issue to debate.3. Students present their arguments to the class.

PRE- and POST-VISIT ACTIVITIES

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Is the music video a new art form? •Is still photography an effective method of portraying a musician?•Are music videos and still photographs of musicians created as marketing tools, •

fine art expressions, or both?• Is the music video now outdated with the advent of iTunes and iPods?

Motivation:

Look at select artwork from the exhibition Rock On! Masterworks of Rock Photography. What is similar about these works of art? What is different? Discuss and define key terms portrait and photograph (for more terms and definitions, see Exhibition-Related Vocabulary on page 16). Older grades may discuss point of view.

These photographs were taken of famous musicians and bands of the past and present. Do you have a favorite musician or band? Looking at these portraits, how can you tell that these people are musicians? What do you see that makes you say that? Do you think the musicians posed for these photographs?

Procedure:1. Explain that students will be creating portraits of one another as rock musicians.

2. As a class, brainstorm about the props needed to make everyone look like a rock star. (Examples: sunglasses, clothing, wigs). If possible, coordinate with the Music Department to borrow instruments or use party favors such as inflatable guitars.

3. Once the props are ready, students will take turns posing for one another and sketching in pencil. Students may also form rock “bands” and create group portraits. Encourage students to think carefully about the way they pose their bodies and the expressions on their faces. Photographs may be taken to use as references.

4. Use media of your choice to add color to the portraits.

5. When the portraits are complete, hold a class critique. How do these drawings compare to some of the photographs in the exhibition?

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Rock Star PortraitsGrade Level: Elementary (adjust as needed)

Art Kane, The Rolling Stones, 1966 (printed 2007), LightJet Digital C-Print, 20 x 16 in. © Art Kane Archive www.artkane.com

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Rock On! Masterworks of Rock PhotographyOctober 2, 2010 - January 9, 2011


Jan Olofsson, The Beatles, May 1967, 1967, Hand-tinted silver gelatin print, 17 x 21 in. © Jan Olofsson/Courtesy Govinda Gallery



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Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen, Mending the Rents, 1886, Oil on canvas, 13 x 9-1/2 in.August Heckscher Collection. 1959.173

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Mick Rock, The Ramones, 1979, Color C-print, 20 x 16 in. © Mick Rock/Courtesy Govinda Gallery

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