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Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History, 1955-Present
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| Part No: | 0307270165 |
| Manufacturer: | Knopf |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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- ISBN13: 9780307270160
- Condition: New
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More than two hundred spectacular photographs, sensual, luminous, frenzied, true, from 1955 to the present, that catch and define the energy, intoxication, rebellion, and magic of rock and roll; the first book to explore the photographs and the photographers who captured rock’s message of freedom and personal reinvention—and to examine the effect of their pictures on the musicians, the fans, and the culture itself. The only music photographers whose names are well known are those who themselves have become celebrities. But many of the images that have shaped our consciousness and desire were made by photographers whose names are unfamiliar. Here are Elvis in 1956—not yet mythic but beautiful, tender, vulnerable, sexy, photographed by Alfred Wertheimer . . . Bob Dylan and his girlfriend on a snowy Greenwich Village street, by Don Hunstein . . . John Lennon in a sleeveless New York City T-shirt, by Bob Gruen . . . Jimi Hendrix, by Gered Mankowitz, a photograph that became a poster and was hung on the walls of millions of bedrooms and college dorms . . . For the first time, the work of these talented men and women is brought into the pantheon; we see the musicians they photographed and how the images gave rock and roll its visual identity. To bring together these images, Gail Buckland, acclaimed photographic editor, curator, and scholar, looked through the archives of one hundred photographers, selecting pictures not on the basis of the usual suspects, but on the power of the images themselves, often picking an image a photographer didn’t even remember he or she had taken. Buckland writes about the photographers, their influences, their relationships with their subjects, how they took the images, how they saw what they saw and captured what they captured: the spirit and essence of rock. A revelation of an art form whose iconic images changed the world as we knew it.
| clue to track | 2010-03-11 | 4 / 5 |
| | the good thing it's that you can see diferent photograph who meybe you dont know and want to follow his work. |
| Informative, detailed coffee table book | 2010-02-01 | 4 / 5 |
| Great coffee table book, with some depth behind it. Wonderful photographs from many of the great rock photographers of that era, capturing some incredibly memorable moments. The photos are a wonderful mix of black and white, candid, posed, and stage shots. The essays that accompany the photographs in the book as interesting and important as the photographs themselves, all are matched well with their accompanying picture.
Wonderful book for anyone who loves music, photography, or the culture of that era. |
| Rock, Stock, and Barrel | 2009-12-20 | 4 / 5 |
| What do Grace Jones, Kurt Cobain, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Jay-Z, Mick Jagger, Blondie, The Ramones, Jerry Garcia, Aretha Franklin, Freddie Mercury, Madonna, James Brown, The White Stripes, and virtually every other major rock or pop musician have in common, besides, of course, being famous rock stars? They've all been shot (with cameras, that is) and have had their countenances collected into a compendium of some of the most striking images of pop culture icons from the modern era, //Who Shot Rock & Roll// by Gail Buckland.
Cross-genre breadth of all sorts of rocking musicians, from blues to hip-hop to pop to heavy metal and experimental, //Who Shot Rock & Roll// offers up the most famous, the most talented, and the most emotional of our musical celebrities in telling images and poses. Both candid and posed, color and black and white, the variety of the photographs and the stories behind them varies just as much as the music made by the subjects of them. There is literally something, or someone, for everyone within Buckland's edition/addition of/to pop culture history. All tastes are accounted for. |
| it's not the show | 2009-12-03 | 5 / 5 |
| Having been to the show in Brooklyn, I know that no book could possibly do these photographs justice.
I needed this book because it is rock and roll.
It lets us get a little closer to the artists that make our lives all the more vibrant.
Also, from a photographers' point of view, the theme allows amateurs like me to see a vast array of styles within a common subject.
The show was amazing, and I pity anyone who hasn't gone to see the actual photo prints mounted on the walls.
This book is a best effort to bring the show home. |
| LOVE this book, LOVE this author, LOVE ROCK AND ROLL | 2009-11-15 | 5 / 5 |
| This book is beautiful. From the quirky photo of Tina Turner on the cover, to each beautifully composed story Gail tells about her selected photographers, and favorite photographs- some which have defined how we view Rock and Roll (and when I say view I mean VIEW, not how we hear Rock and Roll, but which images, and how these images define what Rock and Roll means to each and every one of us.)
I suggest anyone who is a fan of photography and Rock and Roll should pick up a copy, and ANYONE who just enjoys Rock and Roll in general, should flip through the book, nonetheless buy it, to get a good sound, visually enticing education in ROCK AND ROLL! |
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