Photography
44 articles
John Lennon, Iggy Pop: Sounds Of The Seventies: Portrait Of A Naked Iggy
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 1971
ONE DAY late last December I came home and found this message on the tape recorder that answers my telephone when I'm not home: "This is ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Dr. Feelgood, The Faces, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Slade: Introduction
Book Excerpt by Mick Gold, 'Rock on the Road' (Futura), 1976
THE IDEA OF doing a book of photo-essays about live music was sparked by a desire to examine two areas: what the job of being ...
Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Television: Victor Bockris goes to the Airport with Robert Mapplethorpe
Interview by Victor Bockris, New York Rocker, December 1976
SATURDAY OCTOBER 16th 2P.M. Robert Mapplethorpe is going to California on a T.W.A. flight. I am arriving at his fifth floor Bond Street studio loft ...
Valerie Wilmer: "Art is a luxury. Music is a functional thing."
Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 7 May 1977
Photographer-writer VALERIE WILMER opts for unlearning and the sovereignty of the heart ...
Interview by Colman Andrews, Marty Cerf, Phonograph Record, August 1977
As told to Marty Cerf and Colman Andrews... ...
Profile and Interview by Robin Katz, Girl About Town, 17 April 1978
THE PROBLEM with rock and roll music, and the culture that surrounds it, is that few people take it very seriously. Maybe that's because rock ...
The Michael Ochs Archives: An Obsession that Grew Into a Business
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 11 April 1980
MICHAEL OCHS was caught red-handed in 1958 stealing a copy of the Five Shillings' 'Letter to an Angel' single from a Columbus, Ohio, department store. ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: Rolling Stone Gathers A Little Moss
Report by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 January 1981
SIX LOS Angeles area supermarket chains, including Ralphs, Safeway and Alpha Bela, have refused to carry the Jan. 22 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. The ...
The Clash: Still Scruffy, But Now Rock Heroes
Profile by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 5 September 1982
NEW YORK — Four musicians sauntered onto New York's Pier 84 Tuesday. Tall, gangly, ragtag and scarred, they looked like the scruffy street fighters they ...
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, March 1990
The legendary rock photographer looks back at his life and times, snapping (and hanging out with) the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Janis Joplin and many, many more.
File format: mp3; file size: 46.5mb, interview length: 50' 48" sound quality: ***
Jim Marshall: Right Place, Right Time
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, June 1990
Jim Marshall's taut black-and-white photographs, unobtrusively snapped in unguarded moments, are a powerfully evocative record of that first freewheeling decade before the men with the ...
The Band: Elliott Landy (1991)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 13 August 1991
The great rock photographer remembers his time working with The Band, from Woodstock and Big Pink to Los Angeles and The Band sessions.
File format: mp3; file size: 48.9mb, interview length: 50' 57" sound quality: ****
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Yes: The Moment: 25 Years of Rock Photography
Book Excerpt by Jill Furmanovsky, 'The Moment' (Paper Tiger), 1995
A Beatles fan MY FIRST ROCK picture, taken circa 1967 on an instamatic camera, was of Paul McCartney with two of my school friends outside his ...
John Lennon: Bob Gruen: Just Like Starting Over
Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 26 August 1995
New Yorker Bob Gruen is famous in the field of rock'n'roll photography but his association with John Lennon overshadows everything. GRAHAM REID hears the stories. ...
Steve Gullick: Suitable for framing
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 24 November 1995
You can do anything to photographer Steve Gullick, but lay off his blue suede head ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jeff Apter, nyrock.com, December 1997
WITH A NAME such as his, British-born photographer Mick Rock's destiny was laid out before him: he had to work in the peculiar world of ...
Paul McCartney, Wings: Linda McCartney
Obituary by Miles, MOJO, June 1998
Rock photographer turned legendary other half ...
Bob Dylan: Bobquest: In Search of Zimmerman
Book Excerpt by Jill Furmanovsky, Rock's Backpages, 2001
Quest: a search, especially an arduous one, for something that is greatly desired. Example: quest for life's meaning. ...
Elvis Presley: Memphis: Visions of a Bluff City
Special Feature by Joss Hutton, Rock's Backpages, August 2002
Click here to see Joss Hutton's evocative images of Memphis, 25 years after Elvis's death ...
Pink Floyd: So Wrong, Yank Floyd Alight
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Dellar, MOJO, February 2004
"OHMIGAWD! IT just missed Roger!" Another piece of burning drape — ignited by a stray firework — fluttered into the audience. Some cheered, mistaking it ...
Parting Shot: Keith Morris 1938-2005
Obituary by Mark Williams, Guardian Unlimited, 29 July 2005
IN THE EARLY 1970s, Keith Morris was asked to do a session for the first album with an unknown singer-songwriter, Nick Drake. Keith took a ...
Annie Leibowitz: Captured the Magic
Review by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 1 June 2006
Annie Leibovitz's American Music at the Brooks. ...
Joy Division: Closer Still: An Interview with Control director Anton Corbijn
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Filter, September 2007
THE ESSENCE OF DEATH, much like that of war, rests in how it has irreparably changed those left to grapple with its aftermath. Its effects ...
Black Flag and All That: Joe Carducci's Enter Naomi
Memoir by Barney Hoskyns, eMusic.com, Winter 2007
THE RECENT PUBLICATION of Joe Carducci's moving and fascinating Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That... (Wyoming: Redoubt Press) takes me back 25 years to ...
David Gahr: Folk, jazz and rock photographer
Obituary by Colin Irwin, The Independent, 5 September 2008
WHEN BOB DYLAN shocked the audience at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival by going on stage with members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band to ...
Picture This: 10 Years of Rock Archive
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, October 2008
PRIDE OF PLACE on my office wall belongs to a photograph by Jill Furmanovsky. It's an image that takes me back almost 30 years to ...
Book Review by Keith Cameron, Q, October 2009
Manc-rock, from punk to Oasis, by legendary lensman. ...
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who: Naked Eye: An Interview with Ethan Russell
Interview by Steve Matteo, Long Island Pulse, 26 October 2009
PHOTOGRAPHER ETHAN Russell prefers to let his pictures do his talking. In a rare interview, the only photographer to do an album cover for the ...
Patti Smith, Television: The Mapplethorpe Effect: Patti, Polaroids and Punk
Retrospective by Simon Warner, Rock's Backpages, 15 January 2010
IT WOULD NOT BE outrageous to propose that the two greatest albums of the punk tsunami featured cover images by arguably the most important post-war ...
Joni Mitchell, Neil Young: The Heart of Joel Bernstein
Report by Charles Bermant, Rock's Backpages, 12 February 2010
IN 1970, 16-year-old me was following Neil Young around; learning his songs, going to his concerts (two identical sets on one night!), and counting the ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 29 August 2010
Gered Mankowitz wasn't yet 21 when his pictures captured London's groovers at their hippest. As the portraitist prepares to put his Hendrix archive on show, ...
David Bowie, The Clash, Sex Pistols: Kate Simon: An Interview
Interview by Paul Gorman, Paul Gorman Is, 18 February 2011
THERE IS A portrait of David Bowie taken by Kate Simon at Olympic recording studios in Barnes, west London, on January 14, 1974. The photograph ...
Obituary by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 24 October 2011
THE AMERICAN photographer Barry Feinstein, who has died aged 80, made his most famous series of images when he accompanied Bob Dylan and the Band ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 25 March 2012
Dennis Morris is celebrated for his iconic photographs of the Sex Pistols and Bob Marley. But few knew that in that pivotal era he was ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 26 May 2013
He photographed the most enduring images of the '60s folk-rock stars who lived in L.A.'s Laurel Canyon. Now Henry Diltz stars in a documentary about ...
Lou Reed, Mick Rock and John Varvatos launch Transformer in New York
Report by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 4 October 2013
"THESE ARE amazing images," host John Varvatos said at the opening of the Q&A at the launch party for Transformer, the new deluxe book from ...
Lou Reed: A Walk On The Mild Side: Lou Reed and Mick Rock Interviewed
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 28 October 2013
Julian Marszalek is pleasantly surprised to find that Lou Reed and Mick Rock are a great double act… He talks to them about their enduring ...
David Bowie: Me and David: An Interview with Photographer Mick Rock
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'The Rise of David Bowie' (Taschen), February 2014
YOU COULDN'T make the name up: as the man himself says in the interview that follows, "Mick Rock" sounds like a cartoon character, a distillation ...
Book Review by James Medd, New Statesman, 16 October 2014
Jimmy Page: Jimmy Page (Genesis) Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Faithfull – A Life on Record (Rizzoli) Chris Stein: Negative – Me, Blondie and the Advent ...
Boogie Wonderland: Disco's hottest '70s nightclubs
Retrospective and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 26 September 2015
IT WAS President Jimmy Carter's mother, Lillian, who first brought photographer Bill Bernstein to the legendary Studio 54 nightclub in New York one evening in ...
"Jazz was the catalyst for change": Jim Marshall's images of '60s festivals
Retrospective and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 4 September 2016
Photographer Jim Marshall is known for iconic images of '60s rock stars. But his first great portraits were of the giants of jazz, captured on ...
An Interview with Baron Wolman
Interview by Don Armstrong, Music Journalism History, 17 July 2019
BARON WOLMAN – Rolling Stone's first photographer – changed the course of rock music journalism during the pivotal counterculture era, and I was delighted when ...
Art Kane. Harlem 1958 (Wall of Sound Editions)
Book Review by John L. Walters, Eye, Spring 2019
THE BLACK-AND-WHITE Esquire photo of 57 jazz musicians (plus a few local children) posed in front of a Harlem brownstone on 12 August 1958 is ...
"It's All Rebel Music": How Janette Beckman Documented The Early Days Of Def Jam
Retrospective and Interview by Ben Merlis, uDiscoverMusic, 19 June 2020
In Def Jam's docu-series 'Through The Lens', photographer Janette Beckman talks documenting the early days of hip-hop. ...
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