Introduction
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elcome to Rock Paper Photo. We love great photography. A great photograph captures a mere fraction of a second in time. A great photo captures that great moment when the eye, the mind and the heart combine. Our photographers spend their lives covering great moments in music, sports, fashion, Hollywood, and the performing arts. Through iconic and rarely-seen images, their work traces the arc of cultural history over the last century and the leading personalities who defined it. We present collectors with the opportunity to purchase museum-quality work that hang in the finest photography galleries worldwide, and, just as important, to make unique discoveries. We have a favorite shade of grey. And we want you to see it. Because we love great photography. Visit our complete collection at rockpaperphoto.com
Cover PETER SIMON, BOB MARLEY, 1976 Right ANDREW KENT, DAVID BOWIE, 1976
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Clockwise JAY BLAKESBERG, TOM WAITS, 1992 ANDREW WILLSHER, THOM YORKE, 1995 RICHARD AARON, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, 1980 JIM HENDIN, MARVIN GAYE, 1971 RICHARD BELAND, THE BEASTIE BOYS RUSS HARRINGTON, CARRIE UNDERWOOD, 2010
Chi Modu
Clockwise METHOD MAN, 1994 TUPAC, 1993 BIGGIE SMALLS, 1996
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hi first picked up a camera while a student at Rutgers. After honing his skills at the International Center of Photography, he landed a job at The Source, which was the definitive magazine of hip-hop culture. It was here that Chi developed relationships with the biggest icons of the hip-hop movement, including Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, and L-L Cool J, most of whom were not yet famous. In addition to shooting over 30 cover photos for The Source as their director of photography, Chi was able to capture the musicians in candid, unexpected moments, due to his disarming manner and unique perspective. So he not only chronicled the most important phase of the hip hop movement, now a global force, he also was able to show the artists as real people, rather than one-dimensional celebrities.
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JIM BRITT, DAVID RUFFIN, 1974
Photographer Jim Britt worked with some unusual props to capture David Ruffin of the Temptations in the idylic setting of a wildlife refuge outside of LA. While handholding an extra wide angle lens, Jim was warned by the trainer, “Don’t kick the lion!” Without realizing it, Jim had instinctively been using his right foot to push the lion’s head back into the frame just the way he wanted it.
Tom Murray
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n the summer of 1968, Tom Murray was invited to a publicity photo shoot for a popular rock and roll group by a fellow photographer. As it turned out, the band they were shooting was The Beatles. From two rolls of film, Tom kept 23 negatives which are considered the most important color photographs of the group f rom t hat p er io d of t heir c are er. Th is collection of photographs has become known as The Mad Day: Summer of ’68. Tom Murray is an award-winning photographer who perfected has craft working for newspapers, becoming the head of photography for The Sunday Times Colour Magazine, London’s first Sunday magazine. He then worked alongside master photographers Helmut Newton and Lord Snowdon. At 25, Tom received a commission f rom the Royal Family, becoming the youngest person to rece ive t his honor. Tom’s work has b e e n exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world.
THE BEATLES, 1968
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Clockwise TASO HOUNTAS, METALLICA, 2009 JIM BRITT, SAMMY DAVIS JR., 1985 ROBERTA BAILEY, DEBBIE HARRY, 1978 TED ALLAN, FRANK SINATRA, 1962 IAN DICKSON, MARIANNE FAITHFUL, 1974 WENDY LYNCH REDFERN, BECK, 2002 JANET MACOSKA, ROBERT PLANT, 1977
Baron Wolman
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n 1967 Baron Wolman was 30 years old and a freelance photojournalist in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. Janis lived a few doors away, and the Grateful Dead was just around the corner. A 21-year-old journalist named Jann Wenner approached him with an idea to start a “rock magazine”—better known to us today, as Rolling Stone. Through his three-year tenure as Rolling Stone’s first chief photographer, Baron had the opportunity to shoot some of the biggest names in rock-and-roll: Janis, Frank Zappa, the Who, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, The Doors, George Harrison, and, the Rolling Stones, among others. Wolman shot 22 covers along with countless other photos that appeared within the magazine including iconic images of Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia. In those three short years, Baron was able to capture not only fabulous musicians, but a time that we will never know again.
Clockwise JOHNNY CASH, 1967 JIMI HENDRIX, 1968 JERRY GARCIA, 1969
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TOM ZIMBEROFF, JOHN LENNON , 1973
A young and nervous Tom Zimberoff was shooting Lennon for Crawdaddy Magazine at Lou Adler’s house in Bel Air during Lennon’s famous “lost weekend.” Zimberoff hadn’t gotten the shot he wanted when Lennon said, “I’ve had it. I’m done with this interview.” Lennon had been futzing with a doll and Zimberoff said, “Why don’t you have him do it?” pointing to the ventriloquist dummy. Lennon did the rest of the interview through the dummy, speaking in a tiny voice and operating its mouth. The best lighting in the house was under a skylight in the bathroom and Lennon sat on the commode for this shot. Sotheby’s later sold the tape of this interview for $38,000.
Angus Smythe
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ngus Smythe cut his teeth shooting CBGB’s, Limelight, and Lower East Side dive bars. His early work is primarily emulsion, but lately he’s embrace d dig it a l bl a ck and w h ite photography. He strives to bring a timeless feel to the digital age, and to walk the razor’s edge, between posed and candid. When not snapping pictures of musicians, scenesters, models, and party monsters, you can occasionally find him navigating rubble and blood. He’s a disaster medic, search and rescue dog handler of K9 Cassius, water rescue instructor, and self-described NGO mercenary. He’s scrubbed in for a brain surgery at least once. Recently, he did his third tour of earthquake-ravaged Haiti, where he trained the nation’s first 50 EMT candidates and dispensed refugee camp paramedicine.
LADY GAGA, 2007
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Clockwise GLEN EMBREE, BARBARASTRIESAND, 1962 VINCENT LIGNIER, PATTIE SMITH, 1998 JEROME BRUNET, BB KING, 2009 RICHARD AARON, JAMES BROWN, 1979 JOE GIRON, NIRVANA , 1991 MICHAEL PUTLAND, BOB MARLEY, MICK JAGGER, PETER TOSH, 1978 ROB LOUD, CHRIS MARTIN, 2009
Kevin Mazur
Clockwise MICK JAGGER AND KEITH RICHARDS, 1997 PAUL STANLEY, 1996 STING, 1999
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evin Mazur is one of the most widely demanded and published rock and roll photographers in the world. His career as a world-class photographer spans twenty-five years of rock and roll history. Mazur honed his natural talent through taking unauthorized photos at rock concerts, merging his two great loves – photography and music. He spent the early part of the 1980s outsmarting concert security in order to get his camera inside concerts. As a staff photographer for Rolling Stone, Mazur went on to shoot some of the music world’s greatest stars - Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, The Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne and Nirvana - during performances, backstage at concerts, in private recording sessions and portrait sittings. In the 1990s, he became the preferred concert photographer for rock and roll’s elite group of megastars including Sting, U2, Elton John, Bon Jovi, Guns & R os es , G e orge Micha el, Er ic C l apton, Barbra Streisand and The Rolling Stones.
Matthias Clamer
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Clockwise P. DIDDY, 2006 MOBY, 2001 U2, 2001
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research my subject as much as I can. I look for personal traits and tastes and try to link the context of the story with the subject,” says Matthias Calmer. “I like to earn my subjects’ and clients’ respect by being very well prepared with a plan for the shoot that I present ahead of time. I brief my subjects, but then give them space to ease into a shoot, trying not to bombard them w it h d ire c t ions and tu r n t hem into a still-life object.” Being sensitive to what his subjects are feeling is one of the reasons Matthias has been so successful at shooting successful people. “I am calm even on the craziest shoot schedules,” he notes. But he does not hesitate to challenge both the celebrities he photographs and the viewing audience who assume they know these people intimately. “Working around someone’s public image,” says Matthias, “is the fun part of what I do.”
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Rock Paper Photo is an online gallery dedicated to pop culture fine art photography. Founded in 2010, we offer museum quality, hand-signed, individually numbered limited editions. Our fine art prints are produced only through premium processes, some old and some new, selected according to what works best for each image. All materials are fully archival and produced to gallery standards. • Edition sizes range from 25 to 250. • Prints are available in range of sizes. Common sizes are 11” x 14”, 16” x 20”, 20” x 24” and 30” x 40”. • Silver Gelatin, Archival Chromogenic, and Archival Pigment prints available • Gallery framing is available upon request Please visit our website to view the complete collection and for additional details on pricing and availability. rockpaperphoto.com 1-855-RPP-SHOP (1-855-777-7467) 220 W. 42nd Street, New York NY 10036 The copyright of these photographs belong to the photographer credited. Catalog Design: Karen Kramer. karenckramer.com