FINE ART MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY

Exhibitions

Herman Leonard Exhibition in SoHo, NYC May 10-June 15, 2008

The Morrison Hotel Gallery is pleased to present Jazz Giants, the fine art music photography of Herman Leonard. It has been over two decades since Mr. Leonard's photography has been shown in New York City. This exhibition is a photographic journey through the golden years of the Jazz, Blues and Bebop eras that documents the larger-than-life legends that comprise the visual album of America's music. Focusing on the life and times of famed artists such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk among countless others, this exhibition features a selection from Leonard's extensive photographic history. Leonard, at the age of 83, continues to shoot, develop and exhibit his comprehensive archive. Timeless and true, Herman Leonard's photographs continue to serve as the iconic portals into Jazz's rich culture. Leonard's rare ability to connect with his subjects – from Charlie Parker to Miles Davis – made him a much-loved and welcomed figure among Jazz's musicians, giving Leonard the permission to pervade and interpersonally document the Jazz scene from the 1940s through today. Most recently, Herman Leonard was honored by the Smithsonian Institution by housing his entire collection in the permanent archives of musical history.

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Exhibitions

Tom Wright Brings The Who and More to SoHo This June

Wright was born in Alabama in 1944. In the early 1960s, he studied photography at England's Ealing Art School, where he met Pete Townshend, founder of the rock group the Who. Wright turned Townshend on to Jimmy Reed, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and marijuana; Townshend found in Wright a lifelong friend and creative sounding board. "Had I not met Tom Wright," Townshend muses in his foreword to Wright's first book, Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out, "the Who would never have become successful."

Wright became the Who's official photographer in 1967 and chronicled the group's development, including their 1989 farewell tour. From 1967 to 1970 he managed the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan, where the Who's rock opera Tommy premiered. In addition to his extensive work with the Who, Tom also served as photographer or road manager for the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and the Faces, the James Gang, J. D. Souther, the Thunderbirds, Elvis Costello, Bob Seger, the Eagles, and others.

Wright's photographs of rock performers, audiences, and concert venues comprise an intimate, behind-the-scenes history of rock and roll from the 1960s to the 1990s in the United States and Great Britain. Over the years, Tom has allowed limited commercial access to his work. Only an exclusive coterie of musicians, a handful of record company executives, and a few lucky Christie’s auction winners own copies of Wright’s arresting images.

In 1993, Wright's vast collection of photographic prints, negatives, tapes, phonograph recordings, and correspondence – over 500,000 items, still being unboxed and cataloged – was acquired by the Center for American History on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

In 2007, Wright chronicled his journey through three decades and countless lives in Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out, hailed by Townshend as "about the best book on rock 'n' roll you'll ever see"; by Steve Riggio, chief executive officer of Barnes & Noble Booksellers, as "probably the best book on rock & roll ever published"; and by Don Carleton, director of the Center for American History, as "a major contribution to the literature of rock and roll."

Featured Photographer

Jim Marshall

Jim Marshall is known as one of the great photographers of musicians and entertainers, having more than 500 album and CD covers to his credit. His photographs of Woodstock, the Monterey Pop Festival, the Beatles' final concert, and the vibrant youth culture of San Francisco in the 1960's are among the most iconic images of the era.

In The News

Bob Gruen's "Rockers" opens at Morrison Hotel's Bowery, NYC Store

The Morrison Hotel Gallery, the world's leading purveyor of fine art music photography, was proud to host the opening of 'Rockers,' the largest-ever installation by one of the most respected photographers in rock & roll, Bob Gruen. Totaling some 280 photographs, many of them never before exhibited in the United States, from John Lennon to John Lydon, Bob Dylan to Bob Marley, 'Rockers' opened April 24 at the Morrison's new 313 Bowery space, former home to CBGB's Gallery.

'Rockers' was originally presented in 2007 at the FAAP University Museum in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where it drew over 40,000 visitors. The Morrison has commissioned acclaimed architect Tito Ficarelli, who designed the 'Rockers' exhibit in Brazil, to transform the new 313 Bowery space as well.

Bob Gruen's work has shaped the iconography of rock & roll. A native New Yorker, he served as John Lennon and Yoko Ono's personal photographer in the 1970s, a position that would yield two of his best known, and best loved, images of John Lennon wearing a New York City t-shirt, and flashing a peace sign while standing in front of the Statue of Liberty. During that time Gruen was also chief photographer for Rock Scene Magazine, where he specialized in candid, behind the scenes photo features. He toured extensively with emerging punk and new wave bands including The New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Ramones, Patti Smith Group and Blondie, while also photographing the biggest artists of the era, including Led Zeppelin, The Who, David Bowie, KISS, Elton John and Alice Cooper. Gruen still carries a camera wherever he goes and continues to add to a body of work that spans over forty years.

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