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HERMAN LEONARD TO BE HONORED BY THE KENNEDY MUSEUM.
The Kennedy Museum will honor jazz photographer Herman Leonard with an exhibition of his iconic photographs, starting on January 7. We are pleased to have now on show and in our permanent collection Leonard's famous 1949 portrait of Billie Holiday.
DAVID BOWIE TURNS 67!
We celebrate David Bowie's 67th birthday anniversary with this spectacular image taken in 1973 by Masayoshi Sukita. Bowie is captured wearing an amazing stage costume designed by Yamamoto or the Aladdin Sane tour. A breathtaking selection of Bowie photographs by Sukita is featured in Speed Of Life, a beautiful limited edition book by Genesis Publications.
GOODBYE MARTIN SHARP.
Goodbye Martin Sharp. One of our myths of the Sixties' psychedelic art scene just passed away. Martin Sharp's true icons have indelibly marked the collective imagination of an era, with his posters of Bob Dylan (Sharp was a big fan of Mr D), Donovan, Hendrix, Cream, Van Gogh, the art direction of the controversial underground zine Oz and the cover of Richard Neville's Play Power book. Of the psychedelic era he said: "There was a feeling of optimism, the possibility of the world working. That was definitely part of the experience". A sense of freedom that was quite evident, with bold vitality and originality, in his designs and day-glo colors.
Born in Australia, Sharp moved to London in the mid-Sixties. His Hendrix Explosion poster (inspired by a picture by Linda McCartney) launched him at the top of the alternative art scene of the time. He soon befriended Eric Clapton and got to contribute the lyrics to the song Tales Of Brave Ulysses for Cream's Disraeli Gears album whose cover he also designed. Back to Australia in the Seventies, he generally kept a low profile rarely leaving the family home while maintaining his wide circle of friends in the arts world. You can always find a selection of his works at our gallery.
JOE ALPER'S "CAFFE LENA" EXHIBITION IN NYC.
Are you in New York City tonight? From 7 to 9pm enjoy a special evening at the PowerHouse Arena wuth a one of a kind exhibition of Joe Alper's photographs to celebrate the 50th anniversary of legendary Caffe Lena from Sarasota Springs, home of blues and folk greats, from Bob Dylan to Mississippi John Hurt. Last summer we produced the fantastic Dylan Before Dylan show of Alper's vastly unseen photographs, including those of a very young Bob Dylan caught by Joe between 1961 and 1965.
JONI MITCHELL TURNS 70!
Joni Mitchell turns 70! What a long "Night Ride Home" it's been since Both Sides Now, Woodstock and Blue! We join in the celebrations with this great photograph of Joni by Guido Harari. It was taken at Joni's house in Bel Air in 1990. She's posing sitting on a huge poster of the GAP campaign shot by Herb Ritts, which she had added paint on turning it into her own piece of art. Guido asked Joni to dress up exactly as in the poster shot and she duly obliged, adding a few brushes and striking this unusually insane pose. Later Joni's then husband Larry Klein pointed out to her and Guido that her fly was, em, open!
GOODBYE LOU REED.
This is no Magic, but just Loss, to quote from one of Lou Reed's most touching albums. Today we've lost a unique artist and a close friend. In sending out our condolences to his family and wife Laurie Anderson, we remember Lou with this intimate portrait by Guido Harari. It was taken in 2002 at the Lingotto, Turin, during the one and only tour by Lou with Laurie.
"DYLAN BEFORE DYLAN". THE UNSEEN PHOTOS BY JOE ALPER, 1961-1965.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Blowin’ in the Wind, Wall Of Sound Gallery is proud to present, for the first time ever and as a European exclusive, the Dylan Before Dylan exhibition with the historic photography of Joe Alper. Like last year with the Art Kane show, the editing, the restoration of the original negatives as well as the printing have been made at our gallery, in Alba, with the loving supervision of Edward Elbers, manager of the Joe Alper Photo Collection LLC. At last these fabulous images are now available via Wall Of Sound Gallery to collectors and fans everywhere in numbered and stamped editions. Joe Alper's history as a folk, blues and jazz photographer as well as friend of a very young Bob Dylan, is absolutely unique. Read more about it here. The show also features an impressive selection of Alper's images of Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Muddy Waters, Thelonious Monk, Joan Baez with her sister Mimi and her husband Richard Farina, Pete Seeger, John Coltrane in the recording studio with producer Bob Thiele, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie with Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Charlie Mingus with Max Roach, Howlin’ Wolf, Joe Zawinul, Mississippi John Hurt and Elizabeth Cotten, Big Joe Williams. A show certainly not to be missed.
GOODBYE STORM THORGERSON, THE EYE OF ROCK.
Goodbye Storm Thorgerson, the Eye of Rock! "The best album designer in the world" just passed away. Best known for his lifelong collaboration with Pink Floyd, Storm conceived and designed timeless icons such as the prism for the Dark Side of the Moon album (1973), the inflatable pig over Battersea power station for Animals (1977), the 700 hospital beds on a beach for A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987), He's also remembered for a virtually endless series of unforgettable images, also with his partner Aubrey Powell at Hipgnosis, for Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Nice, Paul McCartney, 10cc, Black Sabbath, the Cranberries and Muse. Read about Storm here in The Guardian.
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