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Music Photography: 1963-1997
20.03 - 21.04.24
GalleryOnline Exhibition
SOL LDN are pleased to announce a new collaboration with Iconic Images, whose extensive archives contain historically important works by the photographers that stood at the frontline of fashion, rock, film, politics and royalty.
‘Music Photography’ brings together the work of Kevin Cummins, Norman Seeff and Terry O’Neill; three photographers who documented some of the world’s greatest musicians from the mid-to-late 20th century. Be it on stage, in the recording studio, posing for an album cover or shot candidly, this online exhibition takes us back through thirty of the most prominent years in ‘rock & roll’ history.
Norman Seeff
Ray Charles, Los Angeles, CA, 1985
Starting from £37,350
Kevin Cummins
David Bowie at Tea & Sympathy, NYC, January, 1997
Starting from £1,800
Norman Seeff
Blondie, Chelsea Hotel, New York, 1979
Starting from £3,750
Kevin Cummins
Noel and Liam Gallagher, Manchester City’s Maine Road Stadium, 1994
Starting from £1,800
Norman Seeff
Dennis Brown
Starting from £3,750
Norman Seeff
Keith Richards, Los Angeles, 1972
Starting from £16,600
Norman Seeff
Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe, New York City, 1969
Starting from £16,600
Norman Seeff
Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe, New York City, 1969
Starting from £12,100
Norman Seeff
Joni Mitchell, Los Angeles, CA, 1975
Starting from £20,800
Terry O’Neill
The Rolling Stones in Regent’s Park, 1964
Starting from £2,250
Kevin Cummins
Iggy Pop, ‘Lust for Life’ Tour, Manchester Apollo, 1977
Starting from £1,800
Kevin Cummins
Freddie Mercury, Manchester Apollo, England, 1979
Starting from £1,800
Kevin Cummins
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust / Aladdin Sane Tour, 1973
Starting from £1,800
Kevin Cummins
Björk, Primrose Hill, London, April, 1993
Starting from £1,800
Kevin Cummins
Morrissey, 5th September, 1991
Starting from £1,800
Terry O’Neill
The Who, ‘Who Are You’ Album Cover, England, 1978
Starting from £2,250
Kevin Cummins
Blur, ‘Modern Life is Rubbish’, 1994
Starting from £1,800
Norman Seeff
Joni Mitchell, Los Angeles, 1977
Starting from £3,750
Terry O’Neill
Elton John in Full Swing, Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, 1975
Starting from £2,250
Kevin Cummins
Madonna at the Hacienda Club, Manchester, 1984
Starting from £1,800
Terry O’Neill
Ringo Starr, 1964
From £2,250
Terry O’Neill
David Bowie, ‘Diamond Dogs’, London, 1974
Starting from £21,000
Terry O’Neill
The Beatles, London, 1963
Starting from £4,200
Norman Seeff
Tom Waits, Los Angeles, ‘Night Hawks’, 1975
Starting from £3,750
Norman Seeff
The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street Postcards Finale, 1971
Starting from £3,750
Kevin Cummins
Freddie Mercury, Manchester Apollo, England, 1979
Starting from £1,800
British photographer Terry O’Neill captured many of the artists to have come out of London in the swinging sixties. Beginning in 1963, O’Neill documented the Beatles during the early days of ‘Beetlemania’ and the young faces of The Rolling Stones down in Soho’s Tin Pan Alley. His photographs bear witness to rumblings of an emerging counterculture; an era of rebellion and experimentation that snowballed into the following three decades.
Working mostly in the seventies, Norman Seeff presents us with a similar attitude developing in America. Having left Johannesburg for New York in 1969, Seeff began his career on the streets of Manhattan, befriending some of the world’s most provocative artists of the time, personalities like Andy Warhol, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. His photographs have an energy and spontaneity, reflecting the remarkable innovation of his subjects.
Back in the UK, Kevin Cummins’ prolific archive spans three decades of British music. Shooting for NME, Cummins’ documented the vibrant postmodern culture that formed in Manchester between the 1970s-1990s. From The Smiths to Oasis, Cummins’ photographs helped to define the cultural history of the city and remain embedded in the cultural memory of the north.
