Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History, 1955-Present - SIGNED 1st Edition/1st Printing

Gail Buckland

ISBN 10: 0307270165 / ISBN 13: 9780307270160

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2009

About this Item

Includes over 200 great rock and roll photographs by the best photographers of the genre. This copy is boldly inscribed and signed "To John Keep Rockin'! LA 2012 Gail Buckland" on the title page. The book shows very light rub wear to top and bottom of spine, one shallow dent in the bottom edge of the back cover, is otherwise like new inside and out. The dust jacket is not price-clipped, is completely clean, and has no creases, chips or tears. Book and dust jacket will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. Photos of many of the greatest artists are covered including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, Madonna, Morrissey, Tupac Shakur, Grace Jones, Aretha Franklin, Kurt Cobain, Izzy Pop, David Bowie and many, many others.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History, 1955-Present - SIGNED 1st Edition/1st Printing
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307270165
• ISBN 13: 9780307270160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Gail Buckland has written and collaborated on eleven books of photographic history, including Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography, The Magic Image (with Cecil Beaton), and The American Century (by Harold Evans). She is former curator of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, professor of the history of photography at the Cooper Union, and guest curator at many American museums. She lives in Warwick, New York, and New York City.